And not only in WA state, but elsewhere as well. I am most familiar with prehistoric birdlife in Arizona. Amadeo M. Rea details the birds known to be a part of the Hohokam (Phoenix Basin) diet (mainly ducks and passerines) in his book ONCE A RIVER: Bird Life and Habitat Changes on the Middle Gila.

My favorite bits of SW Native bird "trivia" is that in the Riverine Pima (historical - Gila River Basin) Ethnotaxonomy of Birds the name for sandpipers (all species) translates as "Water Children" and pelican is "hetted heron."

Cheers!
Judy

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Judy Rowe Taylor
Mukilteo, WA
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-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Ian Paulsen <birdbooker at zipcon.net>
> HI:
> I read an account in the Natural History of the WA Territory about eating
> black turnstones from Blakely rock, Bainbirdge island, WA. Also
> paleo-Indians use to eat all sorts of bird species that we wouldn't eat
> today. A grad student sent me a list of species of birds (bones) she has
> found in shell/garbage middens in the state. Cormorants and short-tailed
> albatross are up there on the list! I really don't think either of them
> really taste like chicken!
>
> --
>
> Ian Paulsen
> Bainbridge Island, WA, USA
> A.K.A.: "Birdbooker"
> "Rallidae all the way!"
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