Do any of you out there actually know what this " backstop" thingy is ? I've looked it up, and asked people, and read the papers, and it still seems to be a wisp of a vague idea that "ensures" that there will be no hard border when we leave the EU. Just pie in the sky really. But I do like that "ensure" bit. We could do with something like that , us birders. If we're daft enough to go 237 miles in the wispily vague hope that we might have an 8% chance of seeing a Wandering Corker 477 metres out at sea, we could do with a Backstop of some sort. Some sort of assurance that we'd get something for all our hard work. And I hereby propose that if you dip out on the Wandering Corker, you could count it as Half Of A Wandering Corker. That gives you a crumb of comfort, does it not. First, it means that if you already had Half Of A Wandering Corker from a Previous Equally Drastic Dip, you could add it to the Half Of The Wandering Corker you just got, and tick it as a Whole One Of A Wandering Corker !! And secondly, if you previously had Half of Another Different Rare Thing That You Missed, you could add the two halves up and add 1 to your list. But 1 of what, you might ask. Who cares ? You'd have One More Than You Had Before. And that's The Very Important Thing. That's what our Birding Backstop can do for you. I offer this idea to the Birding Community Free of charge. But now, here's Damien Saez and " S'en aller " He's classically trained you know. I've just thought up a way of giving a "name" to the two different half-birds you've ticked as a whole one .... but I'll need to do a bit of work with it first ... how exciting, eh ! Right ... I've sorted out how to do it....
Let's suppose your two half-birds that you didn't actually see were the aforementioned Wandering Corker and Larkin's Bumbird (!) Both terrific birds of course .... Well, here's the single bird you could add to your list ... ... the magnificently-named ... (after its two discoverers back in 1958) .... Drumcrank-Arsewinkler Bingobird BUT ...... why ? Why is the Drumcrank-Arsewinkler Bingobird right for the job ? This is them, by the way, presumably reading about their discovery. Siegfried Drumcrank is on the left, and Stefan Arsewinkler on the right.
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