Subject: Re: E. Wash. Loggerhead Shrikes
Date: Dec 1 17:21:17 1997
From: Raymond Korpi - rkorpi at clark.edu


On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Michael Price wrote:
> Do they compete? What would Loggerheads--which I've always understood as
> being more insectivorous than Northerns--live on in such harsh conditions as
> a Plains winter affords?
There tend to be more Loggerheads SE than Northerns. I've seen more
Northerns in the Sandhills than anywhere else in the state. Either way,
most winters there aren't a heck of a lot of insects (nor shrikes--I got
reasonably good at identifying them while living in Pullman--
not enough is said about the differences in grey. If you can discern
California and Ring-billed Gulls in reasonable light by the greys, you can
discern Northern and Loggerhead Shrikes by greys as well). RK
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