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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kratter" data-source="post: 3289175" data-attributes="member: 50001">Bailey and MorganThanks for expressing what are more or less my views. I was part way through writing a response when I checked back to the thread and see that you have addressed much of what I was going to write.  I would just like to add (again) that almost all modern museum collectors are well-trained academics with a passion for birds and conservation.  I worked with Chris Filardi for two field seasons in the Solomons in the mid 1990s. Through literally many 100s of field days over the past two decades he has done more than anyone  to expand our knowledge of that archipelago's birdlife, through publications and work with locals on life history, taxonomy (check the many recent BF threads), and conservation. If you really care about the birdlife in the Solomon Islands (or anywhere else for that matter), do like Chris Filardi and go there and work with local governments to ensure that these habitats remain intact.  Or, if you are more comfortable sitting at home banging on your keyboard, write the PM and express your outrage at logging, mining, and oil-palm plantations that threaten these birds 100000X more than scientific collecting.Andy Kratter</blockquote>