Tweets,

I'm surprised that people think magpies are decline east of the
Cascades. They always seem quite common and conspicuos to me whenever
I'm passing through. Can't say I've counted carefully, however.

Gene Hunn.

On Thu, 26 Oct 1995, Raymond Korpi wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Oct 1995, Steven G. Herman wrote:
> > Seeing "perhaps 40 a day" in Pullman must include multiple sightings of
> > the same individuals, though it is good to hear that Pica pica does so
> > well in an urban setting; my comments were meant to describe the
>
> Seeing forty magpies in a day in Pullman (separate individuals),
> espeecially in the winter, is quite common, especially on the eastern
> edge of twon and along the creeks that run through town. In the
> Christmas Count region that I did (about an eighth of a circle), magpie
> counts in the 70s and 80s were common. RK
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