Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 07:01:20 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "rick@blazie.net" Subject: "Mutling" Swans MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If you missed it, check out the wonderfully awful story in = yesterday's (Tuesday) Baltimore Sun on the "Mutling" Swans from = Columbia. Seems one of the regrettable "Trumpling Swans" on Lakes = Elkhorn mated with a Mute Swan, creating, according to the reporter, all = sorts of new "species." Dumping non-native hybrids into local lakes is a = new level of silliness with predictable results and another opportunity = for the press to mess up a bird story. Eirik A.T. Blom 4318 Cowan Place Belcamp, Md 21017 410-575-6086 rick@blazie.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================