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From: tbrownell@vireo.dec.com (A Man, A Plan, A Canal, Panama)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: dead birds
Message-ID: <8803241309.AA26452@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 24 Mar 88 13:09:29 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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>     While on a birding expedition, either solo or in a group, OR while
>hiking, camping or outdoors for any reason, you come upon a deceased
>bird on the ground.  It happens to be a "lifelister".  Do you:
> 
>       a)   Count it.
> 
>       b)   Bury it.
> 
>       c)   Pick it up and examine it for field markings.
> 
>       d)   Ignore it.
> 
>     Please respond by which ever means suits your lifestyle or system
>constraints.
> 
>                                            Steve&Becky
>                                            San Diego


       I always examine any unusual dead birds I find when I am out and about.
In fact, the first official confirmation of the presence of Ovenbirds in my
yard came through the corpse of an individual dispatched by my cat. I would
not however consider counting a deceased species as a life-lister, I'd
rather hold out for a living example. 

Terry Brownell
Digital Equipment
Hudson, Massachusetts