At 02:28 PM 12/15/97 PST, you wrote:

>Yellow-billed cuckoo in Victoria? Likely a local casualty, but unless
>the actual event was witnessed there's no way of telling that the bird
>wasn't splatted in Manitoba or Nebraska 3 or 4 days earlier and just
>picked Victoria as the place to drop off of its deadly host.

You mean we can't count birds that migrate when dead? Heck, there goes
my state list! :)


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