Agree. Especially because this has been possible since the age of sail, and
before that the age of driftwood.
Alan Contreras
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“The history of art doesn’t suggest … that great art gets made by aligning
one’s thought with everyone else’s.” Carl Phillips, in the Yale Review, Spring,
2022
On Apr 23, 2024, at 9:48 AM, Bob Archer <rabican1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi:
I have been questioning the whole issue of ship assist vs any other arrival
method. Should it really matter? I can see not counting a bird that is put in
a cage and released at Hug Pt, but no one can determine if any bird that
migrates was ship assisted or flew here. As attached photo shows, there are
many options both natural and artificial for birds to get across the Pacific.
The line is too blurred for it to matter.
Birds interact with the world around them. Ships included. Taking a snooze on
a passing ship and winding up in Astoria is kind of irrelevant.
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