Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:47:29 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gerald & Laura Tarbell Subject: Re: costs of gaudiness MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-874" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bird populations with flashier males are at higher risk of extinction...populations that have gaudy males seem to be at greater risk of local extinction than those of their dowdier cousins. Bonnie Ott, Does this theory validate sparrows as the most likely to outlive us all? Jerry birdersforever@erols.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================