{"id":53968,"date":"2018-12-08T00:39:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T19:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=53968"},"modified":"2018-12-08T00:39:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T19:09:30","slug":"blacked-necked-crane-at-chug-valley-dialogue-on-first-sighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/12\/08\/blacked-necked-crane-at-chug-valley-dialogue-on-first-sighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Blacked-necked Crane at Chug Valley: Dialogue on first sighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>Dear Editor<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is in response to Tim Bodt&#8217;s article which was published on 7th of December regarding the sighting of Black-necked cranes in Chut Valley.<br \/>\nStill, I stand by whatever I have written earlier.<br \/>\nBeing a scientist or ornithologist, Dr. Tim Bodt may also know that until and unless a finding is presented before appropriate platform for scrutiny or published in journals having at least three peer review stages, information is not considered as authentic.<br \/>\nOur sighting of Vulnerable (VU) Black-necked Crane was converted in to manuscript and submitted to BirdingAsia published by Oriental Bird Club from UK. It is accepted and likely to come in December, 2018 issue (http:\/www.orietalbirdclub.org\/birdingasia). Once it&#8217;s out, it will be available online and will be accessible from anywhere in the world.<br \/>\nHowever, if there ia conclusive documents for sighting of the Black-necked Crane in Chug Valley earlier to 2016, he is welcome to submit it to us, so that, together, we can make it a scientific publication or publish the finding in journals dedicated to birds or presented before appropriate forum.<br \/>\nIt is not a water tight issue, always there is room for amendment, even possible after many years.<br \/>\nThrough your esteem daily, I would like to request Tim Botd to forward a Xerox hard\/soft copy of the article on Black-necked Crane which was published in Look East Spark as I&#8217;m not able to access it. If it is a reviewed by peers, i.e. fellow ornithologists, surely it will stand and will be accepted by ornithologists world, else, condition and criteria are clear and same for all.<br \/>\nHowever, I&#8217;m happy with the constructive dialogue between me and Tim as such sort of discussion and dialogue is important for consolidating a fact. Also, I express my gratitude to &#8216;The Arunachal Times&#8217; through which the dialogue was possible.<br \/>\n<strong>Sincerely,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Dr. Daniel Mize<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>RGU<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor This is in response to Tim Bodt&#8217;s article which was published on 7th of December regarding the sighting of Black-necked cranes in Chut Valley. Still, I stand by whatever I have written earlier. Being a scientist or ornithologist, Dr. Tim Bodt may also know that until and unless a finding is presented before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-readers-forum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}