Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 08:12:40 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Danny Bystrak Subject: Re: distinctive smells MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 3/16/00 11:56:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, raptorsrule@JUNO.COM writes: > Did you know that Osprey have a very distinctive scent. It is not a fish > odor, but a interestingly strange smell, almost musky. Another bird with a distinctive smell is the Red-bellied Woodpecker. To me they smell exactly like burlap! If banders had named birds first, i've often thought they would have some interesting names. Mine for Red-bellied is "Burlap-scented Screamer". danny bystrak bristol ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================