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From: grp@Unify.com (Greg Pasquariello)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Camp Robbers
Keywords: Gray Jay, Clark's Nutcracker
Message-ID: <1990Sep18.135039@Unify.com>
Date: 18 Sep 90 20:50:39 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

Gray Jays are the birds called "Camp Robbers" in much of the north.  In 
Maine and Eastern Canada, they are the only ones, as Nutcrackers do not
exist in these areas.  In the west, however, Nutcrackers are often found
waiting for handouts, so I guess the name could apply equally as well, as
it probably could to almost any of the jays.
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-Greg Pasquariello	grp@unify.com