Fred:
>First, how is a citys official anything chosen?

In Portland, it was a city council decision. If there's interest,
I'll post the story - as I mentioned, it's a good lesson in how
to achieve results by the political process (getting the heron
declared was not the end, it was the means to another end).

Or you can get me drunk next Friday night...

>Therefore, if tweeters announces the official city bird, it become fact.

>Second, what is the criteria for picking a bird?

>Is it aspirational? (Mongolian Plover)...Emotional? (Peregrine)...Promotional?
>(Seahawk, presumably Osprey)...Historical? (California Condor???)...Or
>quantitative? (House Sparrow).

>My vote is for Crimson-fronted Parakeet -- which, incidentally, I havent seen
>around their usual Maple Leaf haunts since May or earlier.

I nominate...the FRED BIRD! :)

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <donb at rational.com>