Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 20:34:30 -0500 Reply-To: bott@erols.com Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Bonnie Ott Subject: Re: Wilde Lake swans MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sherry Peruzzi wrote: > > I'm not aware of there ever having been part-tundra swans on Columbia's > lakes. The swans that used to be on Wilde Lake and are now at Lake > Elkhorn are trumplings -- hybrids that are half trumpeter and half > whistling. > > Sherri, Tundra and Whistling swans are one and the same. They changed the name awhile back. Like the current ones- from Rose-breasted grosbeak to eastern, rufous-sided towhee to eastern and of course Oriole-Baltimore to Northern and then back again. Bonnie Ott ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================