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From: gpasq@picuxa.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello X1190)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: South American Bird Books
Message-ID: <711@picuxa.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 88 14:06:16 GMT
References: <7823@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <7824@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1328@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Reply-To: gpasq@picuxa.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello X1190)
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In article <1328@helios.ee.lbl.gov> mostardi@ux1.lbl.gov (David Mostardi) writes:
-In article <7824@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> e299-ao@sim.UUCP (Brenda Baker) writes:
->
->I'll be going to Venezuela this winter and was wondering if anyone could
->recommend a good book for the birds down there.  I hear they have 1300
->species many of which are very different from what we have up here.
->
->Brenda
-
-Perhaps someone out there has a list of good field guides for 
-birds of all the other continents besides good ol' North
-America.
-
-For example, on Sunday I am going to Stockton to search for a bird
-called a Tundra swan, but said swan is not in my N. Amer. field
-guide -- but for the company of an experienced birder, how could
-I identify this swan?
-
-David Mostardi, MSRI, Berkeley CA.  Internet: DPMostardi@lbl.gov
-
-"Guess what Dad! Those chocolate diskettes fit right into your
-   computer, no problem!"

The Tundra Swan was rather recently named.  It is the old Whistling Swan, which
should be in your guide.

Greg
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By the time they had diminished from 		  Greg Pasquariello AT&T PMTC
50 to 8, the dwarves began to suspect Hungry.	  att!picuxa!gpasq  
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