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From: dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu (David Mark)
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Subject: Re: Wrentit (was Re: television bird lists)
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Date: 3 Sep 90 12:28:07 GMT
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In article <1990Sep2.234531.26188@nmt.edu> john@nmt.edu (John Shipman) writes:
>David Mark (dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu) writes:
>+--
>| ...Wrentit (a coastal scrub bird never recorded in any US
>| state except California and Oregon)...
>+--
>
>Has California finally lost its last endemic?  I heard once
>that Wrentit had been observed a few miles south of the
>Oregon border, but I hadn't heard of any solid Oregon records.
>Anybody know if this was documented?
>-- 
>John Shipman/Zoological Data Processing/Socorro, NM/john@jupiter.nmt.edu

John, I think you are confusing the Wrentit with the Yellow-billed Magpie.
That is the only California, and in fact the only State endemic, and I
heard that it had been observed not far from Oregon.  But I do not think
Yellow-billed Magpie has been observed in Oregon yet.

Wrentit occurs all the way up to Astoria, and it is surprising that it
has never been recorded in Washington.  But the Columbia river is an
imposing barrier to a shrub skulker that often seems reluctant to cross
a trail!  Wrentit also occurs in Baja California, which means it is
not a US endemic.

David Mark
dmark@sun.acsu.buffalo