In a message dated 5/5/2000 1:17:01 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ragweed at igc.org
writes:

> No Corvids

Should probably point out, however, that Steller's Jay is B.C.'s provincial
bird.

If they ever got around to making a state out of SE Oregon and NW California,
I'd have to recommend Western Scrub Jay or Clark's Nutcracker.

For an E Wash./N Idaho/NE Ore./W Mont.(/SE B.C. :-)) state, it would have to
be Black-billed Magpie or Clark's Nutcracker again.

(Yeah, I actually spend time thinking about weird stuff like that)


> No Warblers (though Cardinal is in the Emberizid family)

Now that's truly bizarre!

Nick Pharris
Olympia, WA
NJPharris at aol.com