I can't address Mapste's questions, but there has been a pied-looking Crow
hanging around the south side of the Ship Canal (QA side) in the vicinity
of Diers Bindery, which is on Nickerson St a bit west (?; towards the
Olympics) of the Fremont Bridge. Strange-looking bird.

Mary Klein
Seattle WA
bassclef at seanet.com


Original Message:
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From: mapste mapste at coastaccess.com
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 13:09:51 -0700
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: Pied Crows


I was browsing through the fabulous pictures in the gallery when I happened
upon Michael Hobbs' two photos of American Crows, pied. I have seen
several of these around Ocean Shores the past two years and couldn't
imagine what was with the crows with the white spots and stripes! Now I
see I am not alone, or crazy. However I am uninformed about pied birds.
Can someone explain what this is about? What causes it? How often it
happens? Are their offspring pied? etc.


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