This was an awesome find today. First off, it is a life bird for me. Second, it was a banded bird, which I love to find. Finally, people were very interested in this bird as he is part of a New England Research Project. Here is the response I got back from one researcher:
We
do know it's a male and it was banded at either Parker River National
Wildlife
Refuge in Massachusetts, or Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in New
Jersey. Your photos have been shared on our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TidalMarshBirds/.
Let us know if you spot any more banded
sparrows (saltmarsh, nelson's, or seaside), we use the information to help us learn about their migration and wintering ecology.
Also, here is an animation of a migratory track of Saltmarsh
Sparrows that we put nanotag transmitters on last fall to learn more about their migration patterns --
http://motus-wts.org/data/demo/saltmarshSparrows2015.html.
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