On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 00:25:54 +0200, Piotr Gasiorowski
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piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
> From the point of view of an ornithologist, magpies (as well as jays)
>are classified as corvids, but they are rather different from ravens,
>crows, rooks and jackdaws in terms of appearance and of the calls they
>make: they chatter rather than [krrr]oak.
On the subject of ornithology (off topic): since a couple of years, the
city where I live (Hilversum, Holland) has been completely taken over by
rooks or ravens (I'm not sure what they are: black loud corvids, in any
case). There's thousands of them, everywhere. Worse (lugete, o Veneres
Cupidinesque), all the little musjes (pardalets, wróbelki, sparrows) have
disappeared. (My cat misses them too, for different reasons). How wide-
spread is this phenomenon?
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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