[MDOsprey] Gambel's White-crowned Sparrow in QA
Ryan A. Lesh (ryanlesh@wam.umd.edu)
Sun, 3 Oct 1999 12:33:27 -0400 (EDT)
An adult Gambel's White-crowned Sparrow, the Midwestern race of the
species, was banded today in northern Queen Anne's County. The bird, our
first W-C of the season, came from the Chester River Research Center's 250
acre experimental grassland plots. Gambel's differs from the Eastern race
in that the supercilium is white from the base of the bill to the eye
instead of black. The bill is also on the orange side of pink. This
makes the second Gambel's for the year from the banding station - the
first a first-year bird banded early this spring.
For anyone interested, we are finalizing arrangements to give a banding
demonstration and short talk about our research goals, probably next
weekend. If you would like to see a variety of sparrows in the hand, as
well as other birds from Jim Gruber's nearby migratory station, send an
e-mail directly to me and I will let you know when our plans are
finalized. In the last 2 days we've had grasshopper, savannah, swamp,
lincoln's, vesper, field, chipping, song, white-throat and white-crowned
sparrows.
Back to work,
Ryan Lesh
Ps. - Bob Ringler, if you're reading this please send me your e-mail
address so I can respond to the e-mail you sent me last week. I had
computer problems and lost all the e-mails I had downloaded.