At 11:19 AM 8/18/95 -0700, you wrote:

>
>I've also been doing some Upland Sandpipier research, and (thanks to Kelly

> What happened between summer 1988 and summer 1989 to cause such
>a decline?
>-------------
>Michael R. Smith
>Univ. of Washington, Seattle
>whimbrel at u.washington.edu
>http://salmo.cqs.washington.edu/~wagap/mike.html
>

Michael,

I don't claim to have the answer on this one but I heard that the former
nesting area near Spokane that you refer to was ruined by the plow in 1988.



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