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- From: sandee@Think.COM (Daan Sandee)
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- Subject: Re: Baikal Teal in Colorado; Dusky Thrush near Vancouver
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 16:42:37 GMT
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- In article <C1HH0p.81K@zoo.toronto.edu>, tony@zoo.toronto.edu (Anthony L. Lang) writes:
- |> In article: <C1G0rt.KAH@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- |> dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu (David Mark) writes:
- |> >And my father told me that a Dusky Thrush (Turdus naumanni) was
- |> >being seen somewhere near Vancouver (he knew; I've forgotten).
- |> >As of 1983, there had been no sightings of T. naumanni in
- |> >North America south of Alaska.
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- To the best of my knowledge, it's the first ever sighting south of Alaska.
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- |> According to Peter Whelan's regular Saturday birding column in the
- |> Toronto Globe and Mail, this bird was seen on about Jan. 2 in
- |> Langley, B.C. near Vancouver. It stayed for only a few days, but
- |> plenty of people saw it.
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- Both the Dusky Thrush in Vancouver and the female Baikal Teal in Evergreen,
- CO were around until last weekend but apparently they're both gone now.
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