Thursday, August 21, 2014

21 August 2014

Another very good August day of banding with 55 new birds and 9 recaptures of 12 different species.  We continue to get a lot of Prairie Warblers with another 25 banded today.  Today's first-of-the season species included Ovenbird, Common Yellowthroat, and Northern Parula.
- Aaron


Northern Parula (Hatch year, female)




NEW BIRDS
3 Red-eyed Vireo
1 Carolina Wren
1 Ovenbird
4 Northern Waterthrush
2 Black-and-White Warbler
3 Common Yellowthroat
4 American Redstart
1 Northern Parula
2 Yellow Warbler
25 Prairie Warbler
2 Northern Cardinal
7 Painted Bunting

RECAPTURES
2 Carolina Wren
1 Black-and-White Warbler
1 American Restart
1 Prairie Warbler
2 Northern Cardinal
2 Painted Bunting

BANDING STATS
# of New Birds:  55
# of Recaptures:  9
# of Species:  12
Effort:  116.0 net-hours
Capture Rate:  55.2 birds/100 net-hours
# of Nets:  20

BANDING STAFF
Aaron Given
Mattie VandenBoom
Libby Natola
Matt Zak