Subject: longspur, banding
Date: Feb 27 13:44:39 1996
From: David Wright - dwright at u.washington.edu


A footnote to last fall's longspur discussion: according to the authors
of the new _Sparrows and buntings_ book, winter CC Longspurs *can* be
sexed by plumage characters; if they are correct, the info we needed
existed, but simply wasn't in the hands of anyone on tweeters.

Re observing bird-banding in action, the Burke Museum has been putting
on demos of this in Seattle; I can dig up details if anyone is interested.

David Wright
dwright at u.washington.edu