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From: john@nmt.edu (John Shipman)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Wrentit (was Re: television bird lists)
Summary: Oops, my mistake
Message-ID: <1990Sep3.190219.8676@nmt.edu>
Date: 3 Sep 90 19:02:19 GMT
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Organization: Zoological Data Processing
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David Mark (dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu) writes:
+--
| 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.
+--

Right you are, I should have known better.

Someone reported a Wrentit in northeastern New Mexico a
few years back.  It did severe damage to that birder's
credibility, for some reason.

-- 
John Shipman/Zoological Data Processing/Socorro, NM/john@jupiter.nmt.edu
``Let's go outside and commiserate with nature.''  --Dave Farber