Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 16:13:40 -0600 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Monint3 Subject: ALL Historic Records of SWAMP SPARROWS Needed Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Desperately Seeking Swamp Sparrow Records. In an effort to determine the current status of the Coastal Plain Swamp Sparrow, the USGS at Patuxent (Sam Droege) and the Smithosonia= n Migratory Bird Center (Russ Greenberg) have initiated a large-scale investigation of this bird's distribution, past and present. We plan to visit all historic sites in which this subspecies was see= n or suspected of breeding this coming field season. There are reason= s to suspect that its populations are imperiled in the Chesapeake Bay and could be declining in the Delaware Bay area. We are interested in gathering all records of Swamp Sparrows occurri= ng in the Maryland-Delaware-New Jersey vicinity during the period from late May to mid-August. In Maryland, we are particularly interested = in Swamp Sparrow records from those counties adjacent to the Chesapeake Bay or its associated estuaries. Currently, it is believed that all Swamp Sparrows breeding or spotted within the region during the date= s mentioned above are likely to represent the coastal plain subspecies. If you would be willing to share these records or are aware of other sources of this information, please contact: Jon Beadell monint3@usgs.gov (301) 497-5559. Information could come in the form of personal field notes, daily checklists, nesting records, atlas records, research surveys, point counts etc. Little hard data exists for this species so any sighting would be ve= ry valuable to us. Many thanks for your help ****The Swamp Sparrow Skunkworks Team**** A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it... --Thoreau - "Walking" ======================== =============== Jon Beadell USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center 12100 Beech Forest Laurel, MD 20708-4038 monint3@usgs.gov tel 301-497-5559 fax 301-497-5784 ======================== =============== ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================