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Sakset fra den engelske fugle-ng. Den er bare SÅ sød ...

* From: "Chris Dunlop" <c.dunlop@uea.ac.uk>
* Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 13:08:54 -0000
* Newsgroups: uk.rec.birdwatching
* Subject: Bird racing, Singapore style

Bird racing is something of a minority sport. I've never been on a bird
race - probably something to do with those pre-pre-pre-dawn starts.

But in Singapore, by changing the format somewhat, they have created a
hugely popular variant in which there were 123,500 entrants for a contest
this year, and a possible prize of over 1.2 million Singapore dollars.

See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2509455.stm for the full
story.

Those who think this is all a bit too similar to that other form of British
bird-racing involving specialy-bred strains of Columbia livia, could
consider that by changing to this form they can forget all their worries
about predation by Peregrines.

It's arguably saner than competitive year-listing anyway :-^

Chris Dunlop.