Subject: [Tweeters] Banded Crow at the Fill
Date: Dec 30 21:04:21 2007
From: Brett Wolfe - m_lincolnii at yahoo.com


Hi Mark,

Professor John Marzluff at the UW has been banding and studying crows for years (Urban Ecology). He has written books you can buy at the UW Bookstore and everything. Anyway, you can report this to him at corvid at u.washington.edu if you like. He has ongoing banding projects going on with students helping him...his current study is on crows abaility to recognize individual human faces. Pretty interesting stuff. Cheers!

Brett A. Wolfe
Seattle, WA
m_lincolnii at yahoo.com

marksullivanlaw at earthlink.net wrote:
Today about 12:15 pm we saw a banded American Crow at the Mountlake Fill. I did not know anyone was banding crows (and don't know why they would want to), and have no idea where to report this, so I thought I'd post it to Tweeters.

The right leg was an Orange band above a Grey band, and the left leg was an Orange & Yellow band above a Grey band.

Other than that, we saw a lot of what Connie reported earlier today (27 of her 41 species), plus a couple she did not report. Starling were there, but only a few. There was a Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk working the main Fill area, flying from tree to tree and lighting in one tree for only a few minutes at a time. It made one strike attempt in the reeds near the lake, but without success.

About a half dozen White-crowned Sparrows that were hiding from Connie were behind the Center for Urban Horticulture as well as a Bewick's Wren, a Golden-crowned Sparrow, and a couple of Ruby-crowned Kinglets in the same area.

Mark Sullivan, Seattle


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