Subject: Re: how about those chickadees
Date: May 28 22:11:16 1998
From: Michael Price - mprice at mindlink.bc.ca


Hi Tweets,

Dennis Paulson writes:

>What's going on here? Are chickadees hybridizing extensively with juncos
>(imagine populations of black-capped juncadees and dark-eyed chickos)? Why
>all these albino chickadees?
(snip)

I, too, have been quietly chewing on the problem of possible cause(s) of
increasing numbers of partial and complete albinos in the last few years in
Vancouver BC. *Something* is definitely going on and Dennis' post makes it
clear it's at the regional, not local, level. An effect of ozone-layer
thinning? Environmental toxins? Microwaves? If albinism is often a genetic
defect, and there seems to be an increasing amount of it, then....

Michael Price A brave world, Sir,
Vancouver BC Canada full of religion, knavery, and change;
mprice at mindlink.net we shall shortly see better days.
Aphra Behn (1640-1689)