Subject: Re: birds in action
Date: Feb 10 12:03:42 1995
From: Dennis Paulson - dpaulson at ups.edu


Did I ever share with you all the time I saw a Bushtit stoop on, kill, and
devour a 1-mm insect egg within a few inches of my face? It was awesome.

Remember, virtually all birds are predators (defined as "eating other animals").

This is another in my unending series of pleas to lighten up a little on
falconocentrism, which seems to be particularly acute in this region. But
don't despair, passerinophiles. My Bushtit Research Bunch will be
attempting to capture and color band Marvin this weekend. Marvin, as you
know, is the tercel Bushtit who has been hunting the Thornton Creek
drainage this winter. We have been locating him by his characteristic
mutes, and as soon as our engineers perfect their
microminimicrominitransmitter, we'll trap him again and backpack him to be
able to monitor his movements henceforth, perhaps even tracking him back to
his unknown breeding site and finding his eyasslets.

Dennis Paulson phone: (206) 756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax: (206) 756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail: dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416