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Re: roosting birds



In response to Mike Schultz on communally roosting pygmy nuthatches. Do
you know by any chance, the volume and year of the Condor issue with the
article on mummified pygmy nuthatches?
	Incidentally, the most recen issue of Audubon magazine has in it a
one-liner about as many as 167 pygmy nuthatches found roosting together
during adverse weather. This was in one of those one-line, sound-bite-size
factoids that the magazine has now taken to printing flashily on the
margins of many of its pages. In other words, I do not know how seriously
to take this little snippet of info. But there it is, for what it's
worth. It would be interesting to know if this communal roosting is a
normal everday behaviour, or if it is a direct response to especially cold
weather. Any ideas? Anyone? 

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SHANTANU PHUKAN
Lecturer in Urdu-Hindi & Indian Literature
University of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill
Curriculum in Asian Studies
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