Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!prls!pyramid!unify!grp From: grp@unify.uucp (Greg Pasquariello) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Birding magazine question Message-ID: Date: 4 Jan 90 16:31:42 GMT References: <9001031916.AA06453@jade.berkeley.edu> <3712@nmtsun.nmt.edu> Reply-To: grp@unify.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello) Organization: Unify Corporation, Sacramento, CA, USA Lines: 23 In article <3712@nmtsun.nmt.edu> john@nmtsun.nmt.edu (John Shipman) writes: >I agree with Greg Pasquariello's excellent thumbnail sketch >of the bird magazines. Aw, shucks (he swings his foot at the ground) > >I liked Greg's example of the difference between >birdwatching and birding. Just one question, Greg: if I >spend two years looking all over New Mexico for Common >Ground-Dove and then get my state bird on my backyard bird >feeder, is that birding or birdwatching? It depends on whether you saw it while getting your morning coffee, or heard about it on a Rare Bird Alert! :-) >John Shipman/Zoological Data Processing/Socorro, New Mexico -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Pasquariello (916) 920-9092 grp@unify.UUCP Unify Corporation ...!{csusac, pyramid}!unify!grp