Dear Tweeters: Texas Parks & Wildlife Department reports that the
breeding range of the subspecies of the Whitewinged Dove (Zenaida
asiatica) once confined to the Lower Rio Grande border with Mexico has
expanded 900 miles northward over the past several decades, with
nesting reported in Amarillo, Waco and Brownwood. Two bursts of
expansion appear to have followed the severe freezes of 1983 and 1989.
In 1996, sightings were reported in Oklahoma.

a Buaidh! FX

F.X. Schloeder Eheu! fugaces, Posthume, Postume,
Bellaire, TX labuntur anni; nec pietas moram
fx at sprynet.com rugis et instanti senectae adferet
indominataque morti.
Q. H. Flaccus