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Message: <blockquote data-quote="username" data-source="post: 1536860" data-attributes="member: 70211">Familiarity nearly always breeds a certain amount of contempt..in my view...[tho contempt is perhaps too strong a word]. You could take the most crippling world rare in the world...wave a magic birding wand...and 'make' the species common...and most wud be ignoring them before long! Perversely...you cud use said 'magic wand' and wave it over a very common species...'make' it rare....and you'd be 'wowing' over it pretty soon! Says much about the psyche of birders....[humans generally i suppose].............</blockquote>