Thought this a little bizarre...... (2 Viewers)

[KenM]

A late morning trip to the ''chalk''(Saffron Walden) found me walking along a public footpath with undulating crop field to my left, and a tall hedged private garden to my right, from which I could hear chickens and cockrel crowing. A further ten metres along the path I espied a hole in the hedge, where a quick scan with the bins revealed a male Golden Pheasant (lifer) in a cage, being exposed to a very amusing Leghorn Cockerel, anyway it gave me a chuckle......

 

[Richard Prior]

Another plastic tick for you Ken (well, the bird in the foreground certainly is!)?

 

[Nutcracker]

.... lifer in a cage, .....

Tsk, tsk . . . not permitted :king:

 

[KenM]

Another plastic tick for you Ken (well, the bird in the foreground certainly is!)?

Indeed Richard! The “plastic” rooster must have had some purpose, as to what...I know not. Perhaps to keep the Leghorn on his toes. :-O

Tsk, tsk . . . not permitted :king:

At least I can say I’ve seen a “resplendent male” Nutty , irrespective of it’s caged status, which imo is only “one stop” removed from a so called “wild one”. :t:

 

[stuartvine]

I used to hand feed them in the little zoo in Hong Kong Botanical Gardens, can I have a tick too? :t:

 

[Paul Longland]

My only quail seen where at the aviary in Abbey Park in Leicester city centre. do they count?

On that reckoning, I could double my life list with a quick trip to a couple of zoos8-P

 

[Nutcracker]

On that reckoning, I could double my life list with a quick trip to a couple of zoos8-P

Museum visits can also be rewarding for adding good ticks :king:

 

[mark clements]

Museum visits can also be rewarding for adding good ticks :king:

Can I tick a photo on birdforum? or Panamanian Webcam...

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[Paul Longland]

Museum visits can also be rewarding for adding good ticks :king:

woo-hoo that means I can Dodo as seen a stuffed on in the museum. How's that for a blocker. the natural history section where it once resided is no longer there.

 

[Sangahyando]

Museum visits can also be rewarding for adding good ticks :king:

Mhm...


A T. rex technically counts as a bird, right?

 

[dantheman]

Mhm...


A T. rex technically counts as a bird, right?

Forced to watch Jurassic Park on Netflix earlier this evening. Presume I can thus count it on my lifelist despite a) it being a dinosaur b) being extinct c) being cgi / animatronic model d) it being on tv ... ?


Thanks Ken

 

[KenM]

Forced to watch Jurassic Park on Netflix earlier this evening. Presume I can thus count it on my lifelist despite a) it being a dinosaur b) being extinct c) being cgi / animatronic model d) it being on tv ... ?


Thanks Ken

Forced!....I took “no prisoners” getting into the stalls for that one. One of my favourite bits was when T.rex loomed over the unfortunate individual “astride the pan” baring all and sunder with that look on his face...not unlike when a “boo-boo has been dropped on a Q&A thread. :-O

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

Museum visits can also be rewarding for adding good ticks :king:

Wow. That means I can tick Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Carolina Parakeet, Passenger Pigeon, and more.

Our local college has a massive collection of skins, and it includes a Hall of Shame which is a full cabinet of extinct species.