Michael Price writes:

> 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...

Hmmmm, sounds like the US choosing the Bald Eagle (a scavenger,
a kleptoparasitic, ...) as their national bird :-)

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