Subject: 'Chinese Warbling Wren'
Date: Jan 25 21:28:04 1999
From: Wilson E Cady - gorgebirds at juno.com




On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 19:45:04 -0800 mprice at mindlink.bc.ca (Michael Price)
writes:
>Hi Tweets,
>
>Richard Rowlett writes:
>
>(quote)
>Perhaps. I don't know but whatever, unless one decides to board the
>'Pineapple Express', I won't hold my breath for one to turn up around
>tweeterland any time soon. Pekin Robin is also called Pekin
>Nightingale and
>Japanese Hill Robin and just plain ol' Hill Robin. OFFICIALLY, in
>Hawaii and
>as listed in Monroe & Sibley, and King el.al., this bird is called the
>Red-
>billed Leiothrix (Leiothrix lutea).
>(quote)
>
and Michael Price replied.

>Twice, actually. Both in Vancouver BC. Given how its aviary
>popularity, I
>suspect it's a fairly common, if inconspicuous, escapee.
>
>Michael Price
>Vancouver BC Canada
>mprice at mindlink.net
>
I also had a Pekin Robin come to my feeder a few years ago, I traced
that one to an aviary about ten miles away, where an accipiter tore open
an outdoor flight cage releasing a pair of these colorful birds.

Wilson Cady
Washougal, WA.
gorgebirds at juno.com

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