Re: birding-aus destination of birders in the afterlife

[Harvey Perkins <>]

John Leonard wrote:

>... if they've been bad they go to a small oceanic island somewhere in the
>>doldrums, with no breeding birds at all, and have to study the two
>species of >beetle found there.

...excuse me, but beetles, particularly ones stuck on isolated islands,
often show remarkable and interesting adaptations, significantly gigantism
and/or winglessness/flightlessness...

It wouldn't be all bad.




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