The current range of the federally-threatened Streaked Horned Lark includes
the Willamette Valley, Columbia River Islands, Washington Coast, and South
Puget Sound prairies. A large proportion of the South Puget Sound lark
population has been monitored since 2006. The 2014 breeding season was
extremely favorable for larks, and over 100 South Sound lark nestlings
received unique color bands. In the next few weeks, many of these 3- to
5-month old birds will leave their breeding grounds, and head south for the
winter.


This is a request for information leading to ?resights? of any banded
birds. Typically, the band combinations can only be read accurately if you
have a spotting scope. However, we are interested in the locations of any
banded lark, even if you are unable to read ANY of the bands or which legs
they are on. The particular arrangement of color bands on the tarsus, and
placement of the color bands on each leg is crucial to identifying
individuals, which will assist us to determine where these animals might be
overwintering. All color-banded larks received a color band on top of the
silver USFWS band on the right leg (either green, orange, white or purple)
? this color identifies the birds natal site (where it hatched). The left
leg may contain one or two color bands. The colors used in 2014 were
orange, light blue, hot pink, yellow, dark blue, green, mauve (appears
purple), red, white and black. If you happen to detect a banded lark,
please record the following information: 1. color combination on each
respective leg; 2. date and location where you detected the bird
(coordinates would be great); and 3. a photograph, if possible.


Please direct resight data to Adrian Wolf (awolf at cnlm.org) with the Center
for Natural Lands Management.


If you would like to receive a flyer with images of the color bands, please
contact me.


Thanks, and happy birding.


Adrian




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Adrian Wolf
Conservation Biologist
Center for Natural Lands Management
120 Union Ave SE #215
Olympia, WA 98501

Tel. 360-888-4369
awolf at cnlm.org
www.southsoundprairies.org
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