rising@utzoo.uucp (Jim Rising) (01/22/88)
I'm glad to see that there is someone else out there who sees beauty in some
of these sparrows (which most people consider to be drab).
It wasn't clear from the posting where you saw the LeConte's. I have found
them to be a fairly common, if inconspicuous breeder in grassy freshwater
marshes in the midwest (North Dakota; Saskatchewan) and in the James Bay
Lowlands. They were regular, but not common where I grew up (Kansas
City) during migration (esp. fall), and winter in coastal marshes in Texas
in pretty good numbers.
I find Henslow's Sparrow a much harder species to find. Anyone else with
similar experiences?
Jim Rising
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Name: Jim Rising
Mail: Dept. Zoology, Univ. Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1
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