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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Bright",serif;color:#1F3864">Hans-Joachim and others,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Bright",serif;color:#1F3864">Interestingly, Cornell’s
<i>Living Bird</i> magazine has recently addressed the question of which birds should represent each state, based on a vast collection of eBird data. And they propose the Varied Thrush for us
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji";color:#1F3864">😊</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Bright",serif;color:#1F3864">. We apparently have 24% of the global population overwintering here, for instance. Here’s
<a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/can-ebird-help-choose-better-state-birds-part-2-robins-chickadees-goldfinches-and-bluebirds/">
Part 2</a> of Matt Smith’s and Marc Devokaitis’s extended report, which briefly addresses the Varied Thrush – see the linked Part 1 for their methodology.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Bright",serif;color:#1F3864">I hope the article answers some of your questions. I treasure the Varied Thrush couple who overwinters in my own yard.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Lucida Bright",serif;color:#1F4E79">Trileigh Tucker<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Lucida Bright",serif;color:#1F4E79">Pelly Valley, West Seattle <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Lucida Bright",serif;color:#1F4E79"><a href="http://naturalpresencearts.com/"><span style="color:#033160">NaturalPresenceArts.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Hans-Joachim Feddern <thefedderns@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 10:58 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Tweeters <tweeters@u.washington.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Tweeters] Twin Lakes Varied Thrush - Again<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I hope that I am not boring everyone, but we just arrived home from a rather exciting birding trip to the San Diego area, when I looked out into our backyard and saw a female Varied Thrush! Maybe the same individual we had all winter. It
does seem rather late, though but having seen the snow in the mountains from the plane today, I can see why her ladyship is in no hurry!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It raises the question if this bird is indeed a local - Washington State - bird, or is a migrant from as far north as Alaska?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Good Birding!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hans<br clear="all">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white">Hans Feddern</span></b><span style="font-family:"tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br>
<span style="background:white">Twin Lakes/Federal Way, WA</span><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"tahoma",sans-serif;color:#000066;background:white"><a href="mailto:thefedderns@gmail.com">thefedderns@gmail.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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