Subject: Re: _Zonotrichia_ Sparrows
Date: Nov 17 17:22:27 1994
From: Dennis Paulson - dpaulson at ups.edu


>>From Russell Rogers, Seattle WA, rrogers at halcyon.com
>
>Would anyone out there in tweeterland know of anyone who has done work
>on _Zonotrichia_ Sparrows in Washington in recent (or not so recent)
>history? Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Russell Rogers
>4510 Glenn Way SW
>Seattle, WA 98116
>(206) 935-6280
>rrogers at halcyon.com

Russell, the laboratory that Donald Farner started and that John Wingfield
has continued in the Dept. of Zoology at UW has been involved in studying
Zonotrichias for years. They have done a huge amount of physiological and
some ecological work with White-crowns, and I believe with other members of
the genus from time to time (even Rufous-collared Sparrows from S. America
[which, parenthetically, I doubt are Zonotrichia]). They worked out a lot
of basic migration and breeding physiology by using White-crowns as a study
animal, as have other laboratories at WSU (perhaps not at present). The
Condor has almost annually had papers on White-crowns. Phil Mattocks would
know about most of this and I think has retained a strong interest in the
genus.


Dennis Paulson phone: (206) 756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax: (206) 756-3352
University of Puget Sound email: dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416