Residents of central Washington and western Washington might have a
different take : )
On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 5:00 PM George Neavoll <
gneavoll at comcast.net> wrote:
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Willow Goldfinch is the subspecific name of the American Goldfinch that is
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found in western Washington (western Oregon, too). I think it's kind of
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cool to call it such.
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George Neavoll
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S.W. Portland
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On Sep 15, 2019, at 4:47 PM, Sammy Catiis <hikersammy at msn.com> wrote:
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Just as a side note, as some of you know, our State Bird has been listed
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as the Willow Goldfinch and still in, in many encyclopedias and other
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reference books.. even the new ones. When I was teaching 15 years ago, the
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kids were learning State birds, I was surprised to see them all coloring in
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the 'Willow' Goldfinch. Where this becomes a very large problem, is if
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they wanted to look that bird up in a bird book/field guild post 1950, they
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would not find it. I called attention to the School as well as Office of
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Superintendent of Washington State.. nobody seemed to care. Even the
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Audubon chapters were not on board or interested. Where this is a problem
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I think is obvious.. we are not teaching our kids anything that will help
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them if they are interested in the birds. I realize that Sparrow Hawks and
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Marsh Hawks have changed in the years too..(as well as a host of others)
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but that's not a requirement to memorize in the 4th Grade 😮
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Something to think about. And yes, you can look up Willow Goldfinch on
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line, but that is not what they are memorizing in school. Wondering if any
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teachers out there see anything in their encyclopedias that note a change?
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Sammy
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Now in Sequim
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