Re: Grackles Was Crows, Starlings
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: Grackles Was Crows, Starlings
- From: C*@Dell.com
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 12:00:34 -0500
Hi Bette, et al
Here's a link to both species.
http://www.birdsource.org/_vti_bin/shtml.exe/Features/Grackles/index.html/ma
p2
http://www.imperial.cc.ca.us/birds/grackle.htm
Chris in Arid Austin
USDA Zn8b Sunset Zn30
Yo Chris - Great(boat)tailed Grackles??? Are they from Mars? Bette (in
unsunny England)
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> From: Chris_Nichols@Dell.com
> To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: RE: Crows, was Starlings
> Date: 15 October 1999 13:53
>
> Nancy,
>
> Send all your extra crow to Texas. It seems they are the ONLY predator
> to keep the monstrous flocks of Great(boat)tailed Grackles under control.
>
> Chris in Arid Austin
> USDA Zn8b Sunset Zn30
>
>
> Hi All,
> Has there been any talk of crows? I have read that their population is
up
>
> worldwide. It certainly is up in my neighborhood. I think they must be
> laughing at me when I put in new seedlings, and I've taken to putting row
> covers on all new plantings. They have replaced the jays and mocking
birds.
>
> The only ones they seem not to have chased away are hummingbirds.
>
> Nancy
> Los Altos, CA
> zone 9
> Sunset zone 16
