Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 07:40:57 -0800 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Lynette Fullerton Subject: Re: Out, out damned goose... In-Reply-To: <70E1C0DB4F9B5E4F9CEDB8433F4A68B9661335@PSBMAIL2> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sorry to drag this out again, but I thought you might find this interesting... From Dr. Fleischer: >>The guy at the Economist misread our paper - we never said these were subspecies. In fact, what we recommended was making two species of Canada goose - big and small (the Greater and Lesser Canada Geese?). Anyway, Barnacle also is a good species by any definition (phylogenetic or biological species concept). Just love these conservative magazine writers....<< --- Saunders_N wrote: > A short article in the 2 February 2002 issue of The > Economist discusses a > report by Robert Fleischer et al which has just been > published in the > Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. > The report examines Canada > Goose taxonomy, as well as the taxonomy of the Nene > and two other > now-extinct goose species from the Hawaiian Islands. > > Dr. Fleischer finds that the Nene and the two > extinct goose species were > closely related (not surprisingly) but have also > been discovered to be mere > subspecies of the Canada Goose. Another goose > species that Fleischer lumps > in with this subgoup of our too-familiar Canada > Goose is the Barnacle Goose. > Read this and weep, oh ye Virginia birders...grin. > > And now, having gotten that off my chest, shall we > leave further discussion > of the Barnacle Goose to the Virginia lists and turn > back to Maryland? > Thank you... > > ===================================== > Norman C. Saunders > Colesville, Montgomery County, MD > marshhawk@att.net > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to > listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff > mdosprey > ======================================================================= __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================