For what it's worth, the last two times I walked the loop trail at
Discovery Park, I noticed that many of the song sparrows northwest
of the visitors center had multiple bands on both legs.

Bob Mauritsen
rhm at ms.washington.edu


On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Janet Partlow wrote:

> Hello tweets,
> That Song Sparrow is color-banded, which means someone got special
> permission to do a study using color bands. At one point John Wingfield
> at the UW was working with banding Song Sparrows; he might know about
> this if you are interested in pursuing it.
> Janet Partlow
> partlowj at elwha.evergreen.edu
>
> On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Patrick, Michael wrote:
>
> > I forgot to mention that the Song Sparrow had a single
> > bright yellow leg band. It didn't sit still long enough to
> > get a number, and I didn't note which leg it was on.
> >
> > Michael Patrick
> > (206) 743-8204
> > >mpatrick at eldec.com
> >
>