Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Second Tufted Titmouse Ever Banded

Today we banded 17 new birds and had 7 recaptures of 10 different species.  We banded our 3rd Common Ground-Dove of season and two more got out of the net before we could our hands on them.  We also banded a Tufted Titmouse which is extremely common to Kiawah but very rarely seen at the banding station.  This was only the second Tufted Titmouse ever banded at KIBS!

-Aaron

NEW BIRDS
1 Common Ground-Dove
2 Downy Woodpecker
1 Tufted Titmouse
5 Prairie Warbler
1 Black-and-White Warbler
5 Painted Bunting
2 Northern Cardinal

RECAPTURES
2 Carolina Chickadee
1 Carolina Wren
1 Northern Waterthrush
1 Painted Bunting
2 Northern Cardinal

BANDING STATS
# of New Birds:  17
# of Recaptures:  7
# of Species:  10
Effort:  92.9 net-hours
Capture Rate:  25.8 birds/100 net-hours
# of Nets:  20 (5 shut down early due to wind)

BANDING STAFF
Aaron Given
Mattie VandenBoom
Libby Natola
Jill Midgett