You're missing the fact that it was posted in The Onion, a newspaper well known for it's complete and utter lack of news in favor of entirely made-up stories. Truly, nothing to see here...

Brett A. Wolfe
Seattle, WA
m_lincolnii at yahoo.com

Larry Schwitters <lpatters at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

Tweeters,

Bizarre.

Who is the author?

He really needs to get a life.

He claims the "mistake" is that stupid Sibley doesn't know that a Junco
is a sparrow. Really? He has them with the sparrows on pages
472-473 of the 2000 THE SIBLEY GUIDE TO BIRDS.

What am I missing here?

Larry Schwitters
Issaquah


On Apr 17, 2007, at 1:23 PM, Larry Schwitters wrote:

>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: "Bruce Helmboldt"

>> Date: April 17, 2007 11:20:12 AM PDT
>> To: tweeters
>> Cc: Subject: [Tweeters] Sibley mistake?
>>
>> The Onion reports a serious mistake:
>>
>> http://www.theonion.com/content/node/60500/print/
>>
>>
>>
>> bru
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