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From: john@nmt.edu (John Shipman)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Camp Robbers
Keywords: Gray Jay, Clark's Nutcracker
Message-ID: <1990Sep18.055357.3630@nmt.edu>
Date: 18 Sep 90 05:53:57 GMT
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Sandra Macika (sandra@pyrtech.pyramid.com) writes:
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| "Camp Robber" refers to the Steller's Jay...in CA. Maybe
| several birds are called camp robbers depending on who's
| doing the robbing!
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Right you are---Gray Jay, Clark's Nutcracker are the most
common birds to rate this name, but probably all the jays
deserve it somewhere.  ``Whiskey Jack'' is another common
name applied to Gray Jay.
-- 
John Shipman/Zoological Data Processing/Socorro, NM/john@jupiter.nmt.edu
``Let's go outside and commiserate with nature.''  --Dave Farber