Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:01:20 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Mackiernan Subject: Re: Out, out damned goose... In-Reply-To: <70E1C0DB4F9B5E4F9CEDB8433F4A68B9661335@PSBMAIL2> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi - The plot thickens when we read that the Europeans have now split the large Canada forms from the smaller forms. Norm, we *did* try to find the B******* Goose in Maryland -- last week 100s of Canadas were off Jones Point (and this is when the B******* was being seen at Belle Haven), during an extreme low tide. Alas, no B******* could be located. We will keep trying! Cheers, Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Saunders_N wrote: > A short article in the 2 February 2002 issue of The Economist discusses a > report by Robert Fleischer et al which has just been published in the > Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The report examines Canada > Goose taxonomy, as well as the taxonomy of the Nene and two other > now-extinct goose species from the Hawaiian Islands. > > Dr. Fleischer finds that the Nene and the two extinct goose species were > closely related (not surprisingly) but have also been discovered to be mere > subspecies of the Canada Goose. Another goose species that Fleischer lumps > in with this subgoup of our too-familiar Canada Goose is the Barnacle Goose. > Read this and weep, oh ye Virginia birders...grin. > > And now, having gotten that off my chest, shall we leave further discussion > of the Barnacle Goose to the Virginia lists and turn back to Maryland? > Thank you... > > ===================================== > Norman C. Saunders > Colesville, Montgomery County, MD > marshhawk@att.net > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================