Monday, October 1, 2018

A 4 year old Brown Thrasher and many, many, Catbirds

Captain Sam's

Today was another blustery day filled with Gray Catbirds and Common Yellowthroats. The morning remained cool with the wind only forcing us to close one net early. Overall we had 72 new birds banded of 12 species, and recaptured 10 birds of 6 species. During these windy days a lot of birds can see the nets moving and change direction last minute, thankfully young Catbirds haven't mastered the trick yet!

- Joanne

Little Bear


Strong winds out of the northeast kept a number of our nets closed today. We still had a fairly productive day for how windy it was. Gray Catbirds led the way (17), and we totaled 37 new and 7 recaptures of 10 species. We noticed multiple birds who would turn away from the nets last minute, as the wind made the nets rather visible. We had 3 interesting recaps from previous banding seasons: a Painted Bunting banded last year in August and a Gray Catbird banded last year in October. The highlight was a Brown Thrasher who was banded at Little Bear as an AHY (after hatch-year) on 9/8/2015. That makes this bird at least 4 years old and until today, it had only been recaptured one other time on 10/25/2016.  He may be a bird who passes through here yearly during migration or a bird that breeds locally or winters on Kiawah. Importantly, this gives us valuable data on survival for this species and is a testament for why banding is so important.

-Joel



Yellow Warbler (after-hatch-year, female)



SpeciesCaptain Sam'sLittle Bear
NewRecapsNewRecaps
"Traill's" Flycatcher
1
-
-
-
White-eyed Vireo
1
-
-
1
Carolina Chickadee
-
1
-
-
House Wren
1
-
-
-
Carolina Wren
-
3
-
-
Gray Catbird 
34
3
17
1
Brown Thrasher 
-
-
-
1
Northern Waterthrush
1
-
-
-
Common Yellowthroat
24
1
8
-
American Redstart
1
-
1
-
Yellow Warbler
2
-
5
-
Black-throated Blue Warbler
1
-
-
-
Palm Warbler (Western)
1
-
5
-
Prairie Warbler
-
-
1
-
Northern Cardinal
1
1
-
1
Painted Bunting
4
1
1
3



Today's Banding StatsCaptain Sam'sLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
72
38
110
# of Recaptures
10
7
17
# of Species
14
10
16
Effort (net-hours)
117.35
48.25
165.6
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
69.9
93.3
76.7
# of Nets
28
15
43


2018 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats Captain Sam'sLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
1158
827
1985
# of Recaptures
278
145
423
# of Species
45
39
54
Effort (net-hours)
4677.55
1850.15
6527.7
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
30.7
52.5
36.9
# of Days4033-

Banding Staff

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