Subject: Yellow-billed Magpies
Date: Jun 21 07:25:58 2002
From: Rolan Nelson - rnbuffle at yahoo.com



Yellow-billed Magpies were abundant in the Sacramento area when I grew up there in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
-Rolan
Gene Lynch <vogeler at ieway.com> wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill and Nancy LaFramboise <wlafra at oneworld.owt.com>To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 2:56 PMSubject: Re: A "Yellow-billed" Black-billed Magpie

> There is also information on this in the accounts of both magpies in the
> Birds of North America series. According to those accounts, Yellow-billed
> Magpies rarely move far from there home range - up to 3.5 km in search of
> food in drought years! Not a good candidate for wandering. But also to be
> considered in our area is the possibility of assisted travel by train, etc. 35 years ago, when I first went to CA, Yellow-billed Magpies were pretty much restricted to northern Santa Barbara and southern San Luis Opispo counties. However, I found two of them on the lawn at a motel in Willows, CA, in May. This is a couple of hours north of Sacramento, about 8-9 driving hours north of Santa Barbara County. They are moving northward, slowly but surely. Gene LynchSpokane


Rolan Nelson
Burley, WA
rnbuffle at yahoo.com


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