Rob Hilton wrote: > > Someone in Pennsylvania last year referred to pigeons as "barn falcons" > > Rob Hilton I know this isn't a common bird but in North Dakota we heard someone refer to Black-billed Magpie as a Holstein Fly because of their propensity to sit on the backs of Holsteins! Someone else locally refered to Rock Doves as Bridge Falcons. -- Good Birding! The probability of a given Tyler Bell event occurring is inversely mailto:bell@say.acnatsci.org proportional to its desirability. California, MD http://www.audubon.org/chapter/md/smas/