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Posted by Trey Mitchell on 17:42:22 03/08/07
In Reply to: Re: Apparent Loggerhead Kingbird in Key West posted by Bill Pranty
Is it only apparent until FOS records committee agrees with the identification made in the field by a several reputable birders?
FOS records committee may be the official record keeping authority, but I know that I saw and photographed a Red-billed Tropic Bird last year even though the FOS records committee couldn't; with all of the ample evidence; make the same call. I was there with several excellent birders that all believed it was a Red-billed Tropicbird as well as the some of the world s top experts that read the reports, description and viewed the photographs. Even some of the records committee admitted that they thought it was a Red-billed Tropicbird, but felt there was enough doubt to disallow the record.
In my opinion the record wasn t accepted due to the lake of experience of the FOS records committee members with pelagic species. I don t mean to say that they aren t good at what they do, but that not everyone knows it all.
So there is an asterisk next to my record of a Red-billed Tropicbird seen and photographed in Miami-Dade County.
Is that right?
:)
Shoot!
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