Johann Sebastian Bach
Well-known member
Valid in you own mind doesn't mean it's valid for comparison with other lists where people as a matter of course, expect that all claimed species have been seen?
Bottom line, most people assume that a persons list is seen birds.
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....which simply shows how preposterous list comparisons are.
We all use the phrase "untickable views" - but where are the List Police when we need them to say that a 0.4" view is inadmissible but a 0.5" fly-by is fine? Or that a wing and a tail is denied but UTCs and a rump is hunky dory?
Lists are simply incomparable.
I know a guy who went for the Old Muriel on Lundy. For the entire time he was there, the murrelet was a long way out at sea, visible - but only as a distant dot. When asked about the status of this waif on his list, his response was "I didn't come all this way not to see the bird. Of course I've ticked it".
Peter