Subject: Mute Swans, New Westminster BC 4/28/97
Date: Apr 29 08:13:39 1997
From: Michael Price - mprice at mindlink.bc.ca


Hi Tweets,

A pair of free-flying Mute Swans overflew the office in New Westminster BC
yesterday in the afternoon. The status of this species in Vancouver BC seems
to have changed over the last decade from a few ornamental birds at Lost
Lagoon to rare but increasing feral breeder in the Greater Vancouver
Checklist Area.

That's just what the local avifauna needs: another alien species--and this
one the avian equivalent of the grizzly bear--quite literally muscling in on
feeding and nesting territory.

Michael Price
Vancouver BC Canada
mprice at mindlink.net