All:
Jason Weintraub from the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences is interested in
finding relictual populations of Regal Fritillaries and he wants to
use......Henslow's Sparrows to do so.
It turns out that the best predictor of Regal Fritillary presence is the
precence of breeding Henslow's Sparrows. So, if any of you have records
of localities in Western Maryland, West Virginia, or Pennsylvania of
breeding Henslow's he would like to know so that he can look for
Fritillaries at the same spots.
You can contact him directly at:
Thanks
sam
Sam Droege
w 301-497-5840 h 301-390-7759 fax 301-497-5624
USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
BARC-EAST, BLDG 308, RM 124 10300 Balt. Ave., Beltsville, MD 20705
Http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov
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Down the air
He falls sun-lazy
Debonair
Upon a daisy;
Now he drifts
To fall between
Snowy rifts
Of scented bean;
And where petals
Lift in flight,
There he settles
Hid from sight.
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