Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:21:00 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Mackiernan Subject: Re: Life list question In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit The AOU has put Collared Dove on its list and ABA has placed it on its list, and (like the pheasant and house sparrow) it is an introduced species which is considered to have an established population. Thus you can "officially" count it on your life list, if you follow the ABA listing rules. In any case, it's your list and you can count what you want... Gail Mackiernan Silver Spring, MD on 04/23/2003 1:37 PM, Scott Michaud at mazhude@HOTMAIL.COM wrote: > I saw my first collared dove during my weeklong trip to Louisiana last week. > I added eight other birds to my life list, so it was a great trip. Here's my > question. How do you categorize a collared dove sighting? Clearly it's not a > native bird, but like a house sparrow or ring-necked pheasant, it does live > and breed in North America now. So, do most people count it as a new bird, > even if I didn't see it in its original habitat (Europe)... > > Just curious how other folks handle this... > > -- Scott Michaud > Arlington, VA > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================