>Anyway, the California gull was just a sea gull when it saved the =
>Mormons' crops in the 1840s.

Which matches my intuition. If I lived in Utah, I'd vote for "seagull"
for historic reasons. We needn't be ornithologically correct in our
celebrations of past events (though I personally have severe doubts about
"divine intervention" of a species common here, at that time of year).

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <donb at rational.com>
Nature photos, on-line guides, more *died* as site ate its disk