[obol] easiest Oregon bird

[Alan Contreras]

There are no "easy" Oregon land birds that I have not seen, but I have made
several trips into the Wallowas and never seen the Spruce grouse that others
find. Likewise my avoidance of pelagic trips in the modern era means that I
have never seen Laysan Albatross or Flesh-footed Shearwater, but they don't
count as easy.

In the midwest, I have heard Henslow's Sparrow in two states.  I lived near
them for three years. I have seen the grass move where the sparrow was.  I
have never seen the sparrow.

-- 
Alan Contreras
EUGENE, OREGON
acontrer at mindspring.com


³Undue neglect, or fear, of subspecies is not only unscientific, it can
hamper rational efforts to conserve biological diversity...and to understand
bird movements.²

-Allan R. Phillips, in Why Neglect The Difficult?, Western Birds 6(3)69-86
(1975)