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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Grantham" data-source="post: 1214394" data-attributes="member: 11083">I'm with you on this (for my British list at least). If the BOU accept it, I accept it.My world list is a different question entirely, and I only tick species in their natural range and (as far as possible) free from man's 'direct' intervention. Direct meaning released/re-released, rather than just a nestbox scheme or a helping hand with some food. So I haven't world ticked Mandarin Duck, Pheasant and Ring-necked Parakeet, and have only ticked Canada Goose in the US, Little Owl on the Continent (but those really grey birds we used to catch at Landguard Bird Obs in October were interesting...), Capercaillie and Goshawk in Scandinavia (the latter just to be safe, as there so many birds in the UK that might be derived from falconer's birds).Mark G</blockquote>