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Cardinals predating on Hummers
- To: <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Subject: Cardinals predating on Hummers
- From: "Sandy Cash" <scash@mindspring.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 08:02:23 -0400
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
My thoughts:
Until we have more than a single data point (AFAIK, that's precisely what we
have), we shouldn't read too much into this. Making this into an
evolutionary trend (or any other trend/phenomenon) is way premature, IMHO.
I tend to think that the guess that the cardinal was expecting a big insect
but ended up with something else is a reasonable one, or perhaps this is
just one of those random vignettes with which nature likes to delight and
confuse us. But I have trouble making it any more than that until we see it
again.
Happy birding,
-Sandy
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Sandy Cash
Durham, NC
scash@mindspring.com