Subject: RE: bird specimens
Date: Nov 17 12:18:53 1995
From: Eileen Oconnor - eoc at u.washington.edu


On Thu, 16 Nov 1995 jbroadus at seanet.com wrote:

> I would like to know if you want non-native bird species such as "English
> Sparrows" or very common birds, such as House Finch.

There has been some very interesting work done on the morphological
changes in English sparrows as they have spread across the continent, and
I believe that much of the data used comes from museum collections. i
would offer any found specimens to one of the museums and let them decide.
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Eileen O'Connor e-mail: eoc at u.washington.edu
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