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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Chapman" data-source="post: 3289496" data-attributes="member: 69491">Rather than link, I have cut and paste Paul Sweet's post from the Kingfisher thread below. I'll be reading the two articles linked and in particular the first as though I'm familiar with specimen collection and consider it inescapable in many fields of nature study, at the moment, I do not consider it is necessary in ornithology. That may be as a result of ignorance on my part.... I confess an emotional reaction. I know many that have travelled the world widely seeing birds and finding species new to science. I have not. I know a number of people who have found species new to science in different fields. It is with some personal regret that my interest has been localised and amateur. I have only visited Tring once - to look at Amur Wagtail skins - but I did a little looking around the collection. How can anyone pull out a drawer of dead Gurney's Pittas without having an emotional reaction?All the best</blockquote>