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From: grp@Unify.com (Greg Pasquariello)
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Subject: Re: Trendy species nicnames
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.091026@Unify.com>
Date: 18 Apr 91 16:10:26 GMT
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In article <1991Apr16.204747.22862@milton.u.washington.edu>,
jespah@milton.u.washington.edu (Kathleen Hunt) writes:

> A couple ornithologists I know use "trash bird" for those sticks and bags
> and bits of plastic that look like a bird until you get them in your binocs.

Ahh, the infamous Whisker Birds!  I guess `cuz clumps of sticks and weeds
look whiskery.

> 
> -- 
> (Charles Darwin)       Kathleen Hunt / jespah@milton.u.washington.edu

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