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From: mostardi@ux1.lbl.gov (David Mostardi)
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Subject: Re: Most Common NA bird
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Date: 11 Oct 89 18:26:36 GMT
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In article <1989Oct10.134119.608@utzoo.uucp> rising@utzoo.uucp (Jim Rising) writes:
>I'd vote for the starling.  As I understand it, it was difficult
>to introduce the House Sparrow into N.A.  TOok several trys.  But
>the starling took off after the first introduction.

When I was a zoology student at UC Berkeley, the ornithologists
there said that the red-winged blackbird was the most common
North American bird.

PS. What about the rock dove?

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