Kelly, if you'll accept a vertebrate species which has been extirpated in
the Northwest, but which continues to live somewhere else, I nominate the
Upland Sandpiper, which used to breed in Washington but now would have to be
considered an accidental in this area.

Dan Lindsay, Bellevue
susandan2 at earthlink.net
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>From: Kelly Mcallister <mcallkrm at dfw.wa.gov>
>To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
>Subject: Re: Great Sadness over eagle decline
>Date: Tue, Feb 1, 2000, 7:42 PM
>

>
>
>On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 HuhShih at aol.com wrote:
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>> It really is sad to think that the once great Bald Eagle area on the Skagit
>> is now in decline.....(snip) This is of course due to the world wide
>> phenonmenon of Mass Extinction described so abtly by E.O. Wilson.
>
>
>
>Wow. Bald Eagle in decline. Where am I? Which McDonalds is this? I read a
>lot of Tweeters messages and I pay particular attention to raptor abundance
>when someone posts a bird list with counts. Bald Eagles are frequently the
>most common raptor in these lists. Personally, I see almost as many Bald
>Eagles as Red-tailed Hawks. When I am in major shoreline environments, Bald
>Eagles are clearly the most common raptor about. They do go where the food
>is.
>
>I know there has been a lot written about mass extinction and I don't doubt
>the truth of it in many parts of the world (though how would I know?).
>However, can a Tweeter name a single Pacific Northwest species that has gone
>extinct? O.K., let's make it a little harder. How about a vertebrate species
>that has gone extinct in the Pacific Northwest since European settlement?
>
>Kelly McAllister
>Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
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