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From: winkg@vice.TEK.COM (Wink Gross)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: rec.wildlife or rec.econet=-ecology
Message-ID: <2092@vice.TEK.COM>
Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 00:30:55 EST
Article-I.D.: vice.2092
Posted: Tue Dec  1 00:30:55 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Dec-87 00:54:06 EST
References: <2039@dasys1.UUCP> <18737@bbn.COM> <154@bacchus.DEC.COM> <6745@sunybcs.UUCP>
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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Summary: let's stick to birds

In article <6745@sunybcs.UUCP>, dmark@sunybcs.uucp (David Mark) writes:
> In article <154@bacchus.DEC.COM> larrabee@decwrl.UUCP (Tracy Larrabee) writes:
>    It seems to [m]e
> that there would be relatively little overlap among 'bird fanciers' who
> keep birds in captivity, and 'birders (a.k.a. bird-watchers)' who are
> concerned with the non-consumptive use of birds in the wild.  Thus it
> seems to be that they do not belong in the same group.  If neither
> can generate sufficient traffic to justify a newsgroup of its own, then
> we will all have to live with the combination.  
> 
> Am I wrong about the lack of cross-over interest?  


Well, in my case, you are.  

Look, I'm interested in birds. [period]  I like them for their
beauty, their interesting behavior, the fact that they migrate and
hence show up in the wrong places sometimes, their sounds, and their
conspicuousness (ever try vole watching?).  Most of the same is true
for my pet parrot (he doesn't migrate but my wife's plate of
spaghetti in the middle of dinner certainly counts as a "wrong
place").

what could be clearer than "net.birds"?  watching birds, keeping
birds, hunting birds (gasp!), racing birds, excavating [fossil] 
birds.  (ok, ok, i drew the line at "eating" birds).

class Aves. [period]

Wink Gross
Tektronix Integrated Circuits
Beaverton, OR