Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!rising From: rising@utzoo.UUCP (Jim Rising) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: what is rare Message-ID: <9062@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 12:56:20 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.9062 Posted: Mon Dec 7 12:56:20 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 7-Dec-87 12:56:20 EST Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 13 It is a problem knowning what is locally rare. Really, you just have to learn an area. There are some publications that give seasonal reports, e.g. AMERICAN BIRDS. There is also a publ. by Amer. Birding Assn. and others that perhaps other netters will post. Often just need local publications and local experience. E.g., Pine Warbler is a fairly common breeder in pines in central Ontario, but quite uncommon in migration it seems to me. --Jim Rising -- Name: Jim Rising Mail: Dept. Zoology, Univ. Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1 UUCP: {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!rising