Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 17:00:21 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Janet Millenson Subject: Anti-crow crowd MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Talk about unpopular! I just saw a crow being chased out of a tree (presumably it was going after nestlings) by a starling AND a grackle AND a mockingbird. Gee, does this count as atlasable behavior by the chasers? By the way, the newest volume of the Handbook of Birds of the World has a terrific section on extinct birds, well worth reading. It's nice that they refrained from putting the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in that section. (An earlier volume of the only-half-published HBW is already out of date -- apparently a new species of parrot, with a bald orange head and vulture-like neck, has been discovered in Brazil.) Janet Millenson Potomac, MD janet@twocrows.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ "Look at the birds!" -- Pascal the parrot ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================