Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 16:58:45 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Maurice Barnhill Subject: Re: Introduced Birds MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Kurt. R. Schwarz" wrote: > > Looks like I was the one to start the "are Monk Parakeets countable" thread. > According to the Delaware Breeding > Bird Atlas, the Rehoboth Beach colony was not considered "established" > despite the fact that it has survived since > its inception in 1988. It was not considered established since there was, at the time that text was written, no evidence of increase in numbers. The colony was holding its own but not increasing in number or spreading in area occupied. Since then, the numbers have probably actually decreased a little, but the length of time that the birds have now been there might justify a reconsideration. -- Maurice Barnhill mvb@udel.edu [not bellatlantic.net] Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716 ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================