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Ian Paulsen
Bainbridge Island, WA, USA
A.K.A.: "Birdbooker"
"Rallidae all the way!"

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 07:25:55 EDT
From: JPMyers at AOL.COM
To: BIRDCHAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [BIRDCHAT] Bird conservation in Washington state

An article in today's Seattle Post-Intelligencer should be of interest:


Thursday, May 6, 2004

Report warns of threats to birds of Washington

By LISA STIFFLER AND ROBERT McCLURE
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTERS

"Quick free beer! Quick free beer!"

What if local forests no longer rang with that cheerful, chirpy offer?

Or if there were no more innocent-looking little birds in black masks who
sing merrily one moment and impale moths on barbed-wire fences the next?

That could be the fate of the state, warns a report being released today by
Audubon Washington. It concluded that 16 species and subspecies are at
immediate risk of disappearing, including the beer-hawking olive-sided flycatcher and
the masked loggerhead shrike.

....
the full article is available at:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/172134_birds06.html

cheers...
Pete Myers
White Hall VA

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