On Fri, 10 Feb 1995, Dennis Paulson wrote:

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> 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.
>
>
I was just wondering what the "characteristic mutes" of a Bushtit look
like; are they so small you call them "Mute Points?"

Sorry, I couldn't resist,

David Buckley
lsdb at u.washington.edu