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From: edm@verdix.com (Ed Matthews)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Freaky Song Sparrows in Western Washington???
Keywords: HELP!
Message-ID: <1991May14.133942.10110@verdix.com>
Date: 14 May 91 13:39:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: verdix.1991May14.133942.10110
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In article <50791@olivea.atc.olivetti.com> mjm@oliven.ATC.Olivetti.Com (Michael Mammoser) writes:
>In article <76107@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu (David Mark) writes:
>> 
>> I don't think that a Song Sparrow
>> would be out in a marsh, 
>
>	Except for the Salt Marsh Song Sparrow, a subspecies that lives
>and breeds in the salt marshes around San Francisco Bay. I'm not sure,
>however, that they would be found in western Washington, and they sure
>don't have any yellow coloration to them.

I just spent all day in the marshes at Bombay Hook NWR, DE, around Port Mahon,
DE, and at Little Creek WMA, DE, and there were plenty of vanilla Song
Sparrows in those marshes, as were there at Cape May Migratory Bird Refuge
about three weeks ago.  But, these birds look like prototypical song sparrows
with no yellow coloration.  Do you have Savannah Sparrows on the left coast?
They can have a fair amount of yellow/buff.
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Ed Matthews                                                edm@verdix.com
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