Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 17:03:08 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Fran Saunders Subject: Starling with long beak MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I received the following at the web site and thought someone out there may be interested: Fran Hi, Yesterday I came a cross a young Starling that had an extra long beak that had a slight downward curve and its feet had blobs of extra skin on them as well as extra long nails. It was just sitting on the ground near Florida and Conn. Ave (Dupont Circle area) I could have picked it up but it didn't look sickly just unable to get around properly. I am mentioning this because of the chichadees I have read about that have beaks that keep growing. It reminded me of that.' Cheers Cheryl -------------------------------- Fran Saunders Web Site Director Maryland Ornithological Society Silver Spring, Maryland webmaster@mdbirds.org http://www.MDBirds.org/ ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================