Subject: Fw: [CALBIRD] sandplovers on parade
Date: Mar 4 14:59:34 2001
From: Deborah Wisti-Peterson - nyneve at u.washington.edu



hey tweets,

i thought that you all might be interested in reading this story.
forgive me if this has already been posted to the list.

regards,

Deborah Wisti-Peterson, PhD Candidate nyneve at u.washington.edu
Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash, USA
Visit me on the web: http://students.washington.edu/~nyneve/
Love the creator? Then protect the creation.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Principe" <ThePrincipes at earthlink.net>
To: <Calbird at kiwi.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 11:47 AM
Subject: [CALBIRD] sandplovers on parade


> Yet another news story has been published on the Bolinas
> Sandplover (Charadrius wazzup), this one in the Los
> Angeles Times. The web version (URL below) lacks the
> photo in the newsprint version.
>
> Feathers, dropped by the molting bird and scavenged
> while Kathleen and I watched, have apparently been sent
> for microscopic and DNA analysis to the Smithsonian and
> Ontario, Canada. Where telescopes fail, microscopes may
> succeed!
>
> Bill Principe
>
> http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20010304/t000019248.html
>