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SPARROWS!
SPARROWS! SPARROWS! SPARROWS!
Janet M. Ruth, Research
Ecologist
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This is your chance to see Baird's Sparrows and Grasshopper Sparrows up close and personal! Anyone who's interested in sparrows and can walk briskly across grasslands can help flush sparrows into mist nets. See secretive grassland birds in the hand.
WHAT? Study of the effects of the Ryan wild fire on wintering grassland birds (third year post fire). The 38,000-acre Ryan wild fire swept through the southern Sonoita Valley in April 2002, burning 90% of the Audubon Research Ranch, as well as much surrounding grassland and oak savannah foothills. This study is repeating previous protocols on the Research Ranch and an unburned BLM site to determine how this fire affects wintering grassland birds for several years after the fire. The study involves flushing and mist netting grassland birds, primarily sparrows, as well as other survey and vegetation measurement protocols. We need your help in flushing sparrows!
WHERE? Two sites in the Sonoita Valley - the Audubon Research Ranch and the Davis pasture on the BLM Las Cienegas RCA. Meeting places will be identified and directions provided.
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WHEN? One Wednesday and Saturday in each of three months (January - March). See dates and locations below, and check your schedule.
CONTACT? Dr. Janet Ruth, U.S. Geological Survey, Research Ecologist; email: janet_ruth@usgs.gov; Note: email communication is preferable and will be accessible when I'm in Arizona as well. Phone: (w) 505-346-2870 Ext. 12 or (h) 505-890-4083; I will be reachable at these numbers through the end of December. After that, if you can't email me, you can reach me (during the field weeks) at the Audubon Research Ranch Bunk House at 520-455-4659, or leave a message at the headquarters office at 520-455-5522, but please don't inundate them with calls.
Please contact me if you are interested and let me know which dates you plan to attend. Provide an email address and home phone number if at all possible. This will help me determine whether I have sufficient bodies (or need to draft more volunteers). I will also know how to contact whom if some problem forces me to cancel a particular event at the last minute (some of you remember the rain and high winds of 2004). In other words, if you don't tell me you're coming or don't give me a phone number and I have to cancel, I won't be able to give you a call.
Winter
2005 Mist Netting Schedule
Wednesday, January 12
Davis Pasture
Saturday, January 15 Audubon
Research Ranch
Saturday, February 12 Davis Pasture
Wednesday, February 16 Audubon
Research Ranch
Wednesday, March 2 Davis Pasture
Saturday, March 5
Audubon Research Ranch
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This page was updated on 01/08/09