Sunday, September 30, 2018

Tanagers These Days...

Captain Sam's

We weren't sure how the day would turn out due storms north of us yesterday that seemed to have prevented migrating birds from reaching us, but we ended up having a fairly successful day regardless. We nearly broke 100 birds for the day with 94 birds total (85 new, 9 recaps). Our highest frequency species was a tie today between Gray Catbirds and Common Yellowthroats, with 32 new individuals banded of each species. My favorite bird of the day was a hatch-year female Summer Tanager. Joanne was excited to band this bird since she is from Ontario, Canada and had never seen one of them in the hand! She took the photo below.

Hatch-year Female Summer Tanager

-DanaƩ


Little Bear
It was a great start this morning! We had a total of 81 new birds and 8 recaptures. We had a new bird of the season Swainson's Thrush today!
We had a large amount of Gray Catbirds throughout the day, which totaled out to 42 birds. Even though it was busy, we did not have a huge variety of species today but hopefully tomorrow will be better!

-Kristin




  SpeciesCaptain Sam'sLittle Bear
NewRecapsNewRecaps
Least Flycatcher
-
-
-
1
Traill's Flycatcher
-
-
1
-
White-eyed Vireo
4
-
-
-
Red-eyed Vireo
5
2
2
-
House Wren
1
-
2
1
Carolina Wren
-
1
1
1
Swainson's Thrush
1
-
1
-
Gray Catbird
32
2
42
1
Northern Mockingbird
1
-
-
-
Northern Waterthrush
1
-
1
-
Common Yellowthroat
32
1
22
1
American Redstart
1
-
1
-
Yellow Warbler
-
-
2
-
Black-throated Blue Warbler
1
-
-
-
Western Palm Warbler
-
-
2
-
Summer Tanager
1
-
-
-
Northern Cardinal
-
1
-
1
Painted Bunting
4242


Today's Banding StatsCaptain Sam'sLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
85
81
166
# of Recaptures
9
8
17
# of Species
15
14
18
Effort (net-hours)
142.72
56.15
198.9
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
65.9
158.5
92.0
# of Nets
28
20
48


2018 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats Captain Sam'sLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
1086
789
1875
# of Recaptures
268
138
406
# of Species
45
39
54
Effort (net-hours)
4560.2
1801.9
6362.1
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
30.1
51.4
35.9
# of Days3932-

Banding Staff

Aaron Given (CS)
Michael Gamble (LB)
Meredith Heather (LB)
DanaĆ© Mouton (CS)
Kristin Attinger (LB)
Joanne Hamilton (CS)
Joel Throckmorton (CS)