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2 total messages Started by prs Sun, 05 Jan 1986 01:11
Espanola, NM Christmas Count
#261
Author: prs
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1986 01:11
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Birds of Espanola, NM Christmas Count  12/29/85
  Located in Rio Arriba County north of Santa Fe

2 great blue heron                14 black-capped chickadee
59 Canada geese                   15 mountain chickadee
l0 green winged teal              2 plain titmouse
150 mallard                       3 white-breasted nuthatch
3 pintail                         1 brown creeper
l gadwall                         3 bewick's wren
4 am. wigeon                      31 western bluebird
6 com. merganser                  133 mountain bluebird
2 bald eagles                     l9 townsend's solitaire
1 no. harrier (marsh hawk)        160 am. robin
2 sharp-shinned hawk              1 water pipit
2 cooper's hawk                   2 northern shrike
5 red-tailed hawk                 3 loggerhead shrike
4 am. kestrel                     75 european starling
4 merlin                          1 yellow-rumped (Audubon's) warbler
2 killdeer                        7 rufous-sided (spotted) towhee
88 rock dove                      2 brown towhee
3 belted kingfisher               5 chipping sparrow
25 lewis' woodpecker              19 song sparrow
4 downy woodpecker                44 white-crowned sparrow
47 no. flicker (red-shafted)      290 dark-eyed junco (Oregon)
5 scrub jay                       99 dark-eyed junco (pink-sided)
8 pinyon jay                      44 dark-eyed junco (gray-headed)
94 black-billed magpie            l6 red-winged blackbird
8 am, crow                        21 house finch
20 com. raven                     51 pine siskin
17 house sparrow                  11 am. goldfinch


				Patricia R. Snider
				Los Alamos, NM  87544
Dark-Eyed Junco?
#262
Author: Jamie Andrews
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1986 18:42
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In article <36003@lanl.ARPA> prs@lanl.ARPA writes:
[in reference to the Espanola, NM Christmas Count]
>...      290 dark-eyed junco (Oregon)
>...      99 dark-eyed junco (pink-sided)
>...      44 dark-eyed junco (gray-headed)

     This is a new one to me.  Were several species of junco recently
reclassified as races of a single species called the Dark-Eyed?  I had heard
of the Audubon and Myrtle Warblers being "merged" like this, but not this one.

--Jamie.
...!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!ubc-cs!andrews
"The grounds are excellent"
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