Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!tekcae!vice!winkg 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. Lines: 34 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