Subject: Re: Unique Washington bird?
Date: Jul 25 14:01 PD 1995
From: Michael Price - michael_price at mindlink.bc.ca


Hi Tweeters

On July 25, on the subject of the Unique Washington Bird, David Buckley asks:

>How about Varied Thrush?

David, shall we send you some of our uniquely British
Columbian/Albertan/North West Territorial/Yukonian Varied Thrushes to help
you start a resident population? :-)

You could probably get some uniquely Alaskan birds as well, if you could
somehow convince that state to share anything but the expensive privilege of
shooting human-habituated grizzlies at close range.

I certainly support Varied Thrush as a *representative* bird for your state.
For a while it looked as though the Province of BC was also going to adopt
it as the official Provincial Bird, but the government that finally decided
was comprised of hardcore rootin'-tootin' capitalists (at one point, BC had
the highest proportion of car salesmen as Cabinet Ministers in Canada's
history; the provincial IQ--Ideology Quotient--was never higher; the
performance, well, it's hard to measure these things...). It ignored the
advice and desires of the nature crowd and chose the Steller's Jay as more
to its liking. There followed a certain amount of pointing out a certain
resemblance of traits...

Michael Price
Vancouver BC Canada
michael_price at mindlink.bc.ca