Tweeters:

Seems to this observer that there was a very solid case for the western and eastern (Winter) Wren split. Gather the big Pribilof birds
retained into the new Pacific Wren. I had an eastern hiemalis type (now by the AOU, "Winter Wren") at Graysmarsh
on October 24th last year; does anyone out there in Tweeterland have knowledge of other WA encounters with this taxon? Seems that more
scrutiny of the T. troglodytes group will be needed--thinking here of two Russian Far East (Winter) Wren forms,
which sounded close to, but different, than either of our newly-split North American species, yet didn't seem to fit easily
with the nominate taxon back in UK/Europe either.

Scott Atkinson
Lake Stevens
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