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From: sandra@pyrtech.pyramid.com (Sandra Macika)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Camp Robbers
Keywords: Gray Jay, Clark's Nutcracker
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Date: 17 Sep 90 23:44:26 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

"Camp Robber" refers to the Stellar's Jay (blue body, black crested head)
hear in CA. Maybe several birds are called camp robbers depending on 
who's doing the robbing!

Sandra