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Posted by Alex Harper on 15:05:22 10/15/12
In Reply to: Comments on Cutler Wetlands Ringed Teal posted by Rock Jetty
Many listers view the FOSRC as an opposition because they often reject birds that may or may not be introduced or escaped. They are a conservative body, and I think it is more important that they carefully accept and reject birds rather than allow for a misrepresentation of bird species that may be of an assisted provenance.
In the case of Ringed Teal, they are almost surely escaped birds. The White-cheeked Pintails could be natural vagrants, and it is likely that a small fraction of individuals of the species that are rejected are actual wild.
That said, if I were to add a bird to my lists, I'd rather be confident that that bird was truly wild. Pure listers who follow the ABA, AOU, FOS and so-forth guidelines need to understand that the process of adding or declining birds is a careful one that is partially used to understand true representations of bird species to a particular region, and not solely to help those that follow these bodies to pad their lists.
Lastly, if I am reading your post correctly, the idea that you should have withheld the sighting of the teal to make a better case for the pintails is the real violation.
Alex
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