Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!nmtsun!john From: john@nmtsun.nmt.edu (John Shipman) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Eurasian Birds in N.A. Summary: Eurasian Wigeon does breed in N.A. Message-ID: <1958@nmtsun.nmt.edu> Date: 20 Feb 89 21:17:19 GMT References: <1989Feb20.151705.2347@utzoo.uucp> Reply-To: john@nmtsun.nmt.edu (John Shipman) Organization: Zoological Data Processing Lines: 15 I don't have the reference right here in front of me, but I'm fairly sure _American Birds_ has printed several reports of Eurasian Wigeon breeding in Alaska, and possibly as far south as coastal Washington. It shouldn't be too hard to find wintering in northern California: try Golden Gate Park (southernmost lake in Chain of Lakes has been good). [I have been having considerable trouble with my newsfeed, so if anyone sees this, please acknowledge by e-mail, because my last 30 postings have gone into the bit bucket.] -- John Shipman/Zoological Data Processing/Socorro, New Mexico USENET: ucbvax!unmvax!nmtsun!john CSNET: john@nmtsun.nmt.edu ``A lesson from past over-machined societies...the devices themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines.'' --Frank Herbert