On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, M. Smith wrote:
> competent birders, of course). Either we're a collective group of
> nitwits, or there isn't enough info answer that question.
I'd vote for info--too much good discussion for the nitwit argument.
Again this really is an example of a bird in a highly variable group
which has been grossly oversimplified in the field guides (the
midewesterner in me would say marginalized by the location of many of
these birds vs. population centers--oh, but I'm not going to get
political today).
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Ray Korpi "Under transient skies
Hm: Portland, OR I cannot hobble change,
Wk: Clark College Not now or ever."
Vancouver, WA --William Kloefkorn
rkorpi at clark.edu From _Alvin_Turner_as_Farmer_, #16