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From: dgraham@kean.ucs.mun.ca (David Graham)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Greater Prairie Chicken now extirpated in Canada
Message-ID: <135323@kean.ucs.mun.ca>
Date: 15 Sep 90 08:14:15 GMT
References: <36065@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <683@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
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In article <683@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>, sandee@sun16.scri.fsu.edu (Daan
Sandee) writes: 
> In article <36065@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu
(David Mark) writes: 

>  Greater Prairie-Chicken. I understand it is extirpated from its former
>     range in Canada, but I may be wrong.

No, this is now correct, as this bird has been given 'extirpated' 
status in the last year for Canada. However, that makes it a present 
US endemic, not an all-time one as David specified (but see Daan's 
disclaimer below).

> I missed Carolina Chickadee. Ignoring the conditions of the trivia quiz,
> I would prefer to call a species endemic if its *normal* range is entirely
> within the U.S. 

> Daan Sandee                                          
sandee@sun16.scri.fsu.edu 
> Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
> Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052  (904) 644-7045
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   David Graham					dgraham@kean.ucs.mun.ca  
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