Perhaps the "good" news is that in the fullness of time the initiative will switch to those countries where the birds actually are (aren't all Paraguay's birds in drawers in the Smithsonian?).
One day people (in the N) might even start questioning why their tax dollars go to maintaining large collections of specimens of species that don't even occur there.
One day people (in the N) might even start questioning why their tax dollars go to maintaining large collections of specimens of species that don't even occur there.