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  1. Paul Chapman

    Guadalcanal Moustached Kingfisher

    Ironic or not, clearly misinformed like the comments about amateurs etc. I find the playing the man not the ball by some of those engaged in continuing collection and the continual responses aimed at arguments not actually being made pretty bizarre. Those things actually detract from the more...
  2. Paul Chapman

    Guadalcanal Moustached Kingfisher

    If your concern is in respect of the natural world and the preservation of it and natural biodiversity and not the issue of killing per se, I think that it can sit well outside that spectrum (save in respect of the arguments that such means of meat production are highly inefficient and as a...
  3. Paul Chapman

    Guadalcanal Moustached Kingfisher

    And indeed choose your own order - an interesting insight - as is this which provoked one of the Nigel Collar responses:- 'British conservationists are aware of, and their work benefits from, my and other overlooked research (published in journals such as Conservation Biology), but they are...
  4. Paul Chapman

    Guadalcanal Moustached Kingfisher

    Richard I find this puzzling. Even if a position is inconsistent, why is that relevant to the examination of the collection of this individual or the ongoing need for collection of bird specimens generally. I don't eat fish or seafood and I have no children. I respected the Manu Siva Tau this...
  5. Paul Chapman

    Guadalcanal Moustached Kingfisher

    https://www.audubon.org/news/why-i-collected-moustached-kingfisher 'Within the collections of the museum, I have drummed ancient songs, cried tears of sorrow and joy with the descendants of long deceased mask-carvers from a world that evaporated with the near genocide caused by European...
  6. Paul Chapman

    Guadalcanal Moustached Kingfisher

    I won't spoil the ending for you if you have not seen it but if you want to find out, I think that the film's plot is here:- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddington_(film) All the best
  7. Paul Chapman

    Guadalcanal Moustached Kingfisher

    An interesting illustration of this. A pizza and a bottle of red with a mate and ex-colleague before today's imminent football. An educated man but with no interest in nature beyond the current concentration on halting global warming. His response to this story was - 'Christ. That's the plot of...
  8. Paul Chapman

    Guadalcanal Moustached Kingfisher

    Mick I do encourage you to read the paper set out below:- The paper does not suggest much self-reflection. All the best
  9. Paul Chapman

    Guadalcanal Moustached Kingfisher

    Paul OK - I have read the Remsen paper once. I will read it again more thoroughly. I am but an amateur so probably not worth listening to. I am finding the paper pretty poor. The use of the potential split of North American red crossbill into at least seven new species as justifying...
  10. Paul Chapman

    Guadalcanal Moustached Kingfisher

    Alan Noted. I imagine that there must have been at least one endemic invert dependent on at least one endemic fern. All the best
  11. Paul Chapman

    Guadalcanal Moustached Kingfisher

    Alan For balance, it will be useful to know how many species new to science he will also add. There will undoubtedly be some. The Huffington post article for me brought home the danger of polluting a debate on the necessity of some collecting with a debate on all collecting. All the best
  12. Paul Chapman

    Guadalcanal Moustached Kingfisher

    In fairness, Dave is claiming to be youthful in 1994 so poetic licence is being displayed on both sides. All the best
  13. Paul Chapman

    Guadalcanal Moustached Kingfisher

    Dave A good read. At least Guy did not write you out of the White-eye. ;) All the best
  14. Paul Chapman

    Guadalcanal Moustached Kingfisher

    http://www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/Guadalcanal_Moustached_Kingfisher_rediscovered_in_the_Solomon_Islands.aspx?s_id=436521074 "A spectacular forest kingfisher not seen since the 1950s has been rediscovered and photographed in the highlands of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands." Not seen...
  15. Paul Chapman

    Guadalcanal Moustached Kingfisher

    Per Richard's link in the first post:- http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/factsheet/22726883 'If each call relates to a different bird, then the local density was 75 calling birds per km2, but much forest at this altitude is unsuitable for this species (D. Gibbs in litt. 1994, Gibbs...
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