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Re: Garden Birds

To: Peter Woodall <>
Subject: Re: Garden Birds
From: Ronald Orenstein <>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 20:24:39 -0500
At 10:24 AM 18/11/1997 +1000, you wrote:
>At 01:29 18/11/97 +1100, you wrote:
>>Dear Peter,
>>> Why does Harare have many native seed-eaters coming into the gardens,
>>> while very few of the Australian finches do?

You might be interested to know that the parrotfinch Erythrura cyaneovirens
is a common garden bird in Fiji, but other races (or closely related
species, depending on whom you read) on Samoa and elsewhere are shy forest
birds.  Go figure....
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