Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!psuvax1!gatech!prism!vsserv!loligo!sandee From: sandee@loligo (Daan Sandee) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Rarities in Europe - anyone interested Message-ID: <224@vsserv.scri.fsu.edu> Date: 29 Sep 89 12:53:00 GMT References: <25572@santra.UUCP> Sender: news@vsserv.scri.fsu.edu Reply-To: sandee@loligo.UUCP (Daan Sandee) Organization: Florida State University Lines: 27 In article <25572@santra.UUCP> s30986u@kaira.hut.fi (Martin Helin) writes: > >Anyway, I would be very pleased to here that some of you (especially >in Europe) were interested in rarities in Europe (including vagrants >from North America and elsewhere, of course). > As an expatriate European, I'm also interested in European rarities. So I hope you WON'T restrict your distribution to Europe only. As I'm sure you are aware, there are few Europeans on the net, and there is little hope there will be many more birders on. I know at least one other, but she doesn't have a USENET feed yet - she and I correspond by Email. >For a start I can tell you that the most rare bird observed in Finland >this autumn is, by far, a Cream-coloured Courser (Cursorius cursor) - >I hope I got the name right - a couple of days ago in the Western part That's right. To American birders : it's about as rare as seeing a Greater Roadrunner in Labrador. >Martin Helin Helsinki University of Technology, Finland >Internet : mhe@otax.hut.fi UUCP : mhe@otax.UUCP > s30986u@kaira.hut.fi s30986u@kaira.UUCP Daan Sandee sandee@sun6.fsu.edu Supercomputer Computations Research Institute Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052 (904) 644-7045