Newsgroups: rec.birds
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From: rising@utzoo.uucp (Jim Rising)
Subject: 3 Species of Jays
Message-ID: <1989Nov13.152744.16251@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 89 15:27:44 GMT

I was interested in the posting of Blue Jays at Albuquerque(?).
I did my thesis research in the Great Plains (working on hybridization
between species pairs--viz. orioles).  At that time, Blue Jays were
not found in extreme western Kansas.  Toward the end of my time there
(late 1960s), thy had made it to extreme SW Kansas (my first hint of
that was that the local mockingbirds had picked up the "jay" call;
I didn't see the jays until a few months later).  By the early
'70s, they were in the foothills of Colorado, where (near Boulder)
hybrids were reported.  Anyone out there in netland know their 
current status in the Rocky Mountain states?  I'd be curious to
know.

P.S.  Migration continues here.  Rough-legged Hawks common, and I saw
my first Tree Sparrows on the week-end (reported eariler by others
around here, I'm sure).  Also, Fox Sparrows still around.
--Jim RIsing
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