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From: sandee@loligo (Daan Sandee)
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Subject: Re: Rarities in Europe - anyone interested
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Date: 29 Sep 89 12:53:00 GMT
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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