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From: mjm@oliven.olivetti.com (Michael Mammoser)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Camp Robbers
Keywords: Gray Jay, Clark's Nutcracker
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Date: 18 Sep 90 00:00:27 GMT
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 In article <9833@pogo.WV.TEK.COM>, mikeb@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Mike Bogar) writes:
 > 
 > I am repeating my earlier article that I omitted a line from.
 > 
 > Is the Gray Jay or the Clark's Nutcracker the bird that is commonly
 > referred to as a camp robber?  I thought it was the latter, but believe
 > the birds that visited my lunch site recently were Nutcrackers.  We
 > were at 4000 ft in the Oregon Cascades and both birds occur in the area

	While I was at the ABA convention in Colorado, I went on
the Rocky Mountain field trip and the leaders kept describing the
Gray Jay as the "camp robber". Sure enough, when we stopped for lunch,
the Gray Jays came around looking for handouts. However, there is a
spot along Trail Ridge Road where people stop for the view and to
feed the birds, most of which are Clark's Nutcrackers. Perhaps the
name should apply equally well to both.

Mike