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Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: range expansions
Keywords: birding, bird-watching
Message-ID: <30845@ism780c.isc.com>
Date: 1 Aug 89 23:58:57 GMT
References: <8863@cs.Buffalo.EDU> <390@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <8903@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Reply-To: marv@ism780.UUCP (Marvin Rubenstein)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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In article <8903@cs.Buffalo.EDU> dmark@sunybcs.UUCP (David Mark) writes:
>One of the most spectaculcr bird range expansions in recent years (except
>for the introduced Starling in North America) was the spread of the
>Collared Dove across Europe.  Well, the species is now well-established
>in Florida (escapes, or trans-Atlantic dispersal?), and they should be
>appearing at *YOUR* feeder before long!

Cattle egrets are now fairly common in Imperial And San Diego counties of
of California.  I heard that they crossed over from Africa on their own.

   Marv Rubinstein