Subject: Re: Magpie hyperbole
Date: Oct 25 08:40:53 1995
From: Don Baccus - donb at Rational.COM
On Tue, 24 Oct 1995, Steven G. Herman wrote:
> For myself, I would like to
> see them much more easily and in huge flocks, as I did in Colorado 40
> years ago.
Sherrie Hockett:
>Maybe they don't flock like Starlings, but what's hyperbolic about nearly
>running over them on the streets of Pullman everyday? I see probably 40
>birds a day.
Magpies have most certainly declined in eastern Oregon. David Marshall,
who was a refuge biologist at Malheur NWR in the late 1940s, confirms
this.
- Don Baccus, Portland OR <donb at rational.com>