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Message: <blockquote data-quote="amears" data-source="post: 3288145" data-attributes="member: 70879">Birdwatch mag extract:'The male – the plumage of which was previously undescribed – was taken as a specimen for further study at the American Museum of Natural History.'I'll spare you pages of my further thoughts except for these:What are they planning to study about it I wonder?Not all research is at all important.Field guides can be illustrated adequately by a combination of existing skins and field observation and they're not that important anyway. We've all used some really sh£t field guides over the years and managed just fine.What's wrong with so-called emotion? It's why we use crash test dummies instead of live humans isn't it.And I mentioned Bugun L earlier in this thread to a resounding silence.I quite agree that this argument will not be solved on BF but while articles like this one are published and posted, I imagine they will be met with this response again and again.</blockquote>