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From: sid@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Sid Johnson WB6VWH)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Wrentit (was Re: television bird lists)
Summary: comman in LA
Message-ID: <4729@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Date: 3 Sep 90 15:02:16 GMT
References: <34489@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <1167@cluster.cs.su.oz> <34565@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <1990Sep2.234531.26188@nmt.edu>
Reply-To: sid@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Sid Johnson WB6VWH)
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In article <1990Sep2.234531.26188@nmt.edu> john@nmt.edu (John Shipman) writes:
>
>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
>``Let's go outside and commiserate with nature.''  --Dave Farber

I can't help as far as Oregon is concerned, or even Northern California
now that I think about it, but Wrentit is a common bird here in the LA
area.  I see them on a regular basis in the chaparral around JPL and
in the nearby Arroyo Seco canyon.  Come to think of it I guess I would
be surprised to hike around the ponds and the wash at the mouth of Arroyo
Seco without seeing at least one.

Sid Johnson, WB6VWH, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena CA