Captain Sam's:
We continued to catch a decent number of migrants for mid-late August today with 33 new birds and 10 recaptures of 18 different species. It appears that this will mostly likely come to an end for at least the next several days. There is a high pressure system sitting over the eastern half of the US which will keep us hot and humid. Along with that, we will likely see a wind shift to more of an easterly direction. For the last few days, we have had winds predominately out of the west and southwest. These westerly winds help to push migrant to the coast. Alternatively, easterly winds push birds away from the coast and away from us.
KIBS Banding Data 2012-2019
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| Veery (after hatch-year, sex unknown) |
Little Bear:
Our luck with overcast, cloudy days ended today as it was hot and sunny, so we didn't get as many hours of banding in as we would have liked. But we still managed to catch another first-of-season species for the Little Bear station: Common Yellowthroat! We caught two hatch-year birds that were rather plain and dull. No black face-mask feathers were growing in on either bird, so we were unable to definitively sex them as either male or female. I'm excited to catch (many!) more of these sneaky warblers as the season goes on, and learn all about their molt strategies, and personalities.
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| Hatch-year Common Yellowthroat Photo by Kandace Glanville |
-Kandace
| Species | Captain Sam's | Little Bear | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New | Recaps | New | Recaps | |
Downy Woodpecker | - | 1 | - | - |
Eastern Wood-pewee | - | - | - | - |
Acadian Flycatcher | 1 | - | - | - |
Great-crested Flycatcher | 1 | - | - | - |
White-eyed Vireo | - | - | 1 | - |
Red-eyed Vireo | 8 | - | 1 | - |
Carolina Wren | - | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Brown Thrasher | - | 1 | - | - |
Northern Mockingbird | 2 | - | - | - |
Veery | 1 | - | - | - |
Yellow-breasted Chat | - | 1 | - | - |
Ovenbird | 2 | 1 | 1 | - |
Northern Waterthrush | 1 | - | 1 | - |
Black-and-white Warbler | 1 | - | - | - |
Prothonotary Warbler | 2 | - | - | - |
Common Yellowthroat | 1 | - | 2 | - |
American Redstart | 5 | - | 2 | - |
Yellow Warbler | - | - | 1 | - |
Prairie Warbler | 4 | 1 | 3 | - |
Northern Cardinal | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Painted Bunting | 3 | 4 | - | - |
| Today's Banding Stats | Captain Sam's | Little Bear | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| # Birds Banded | 33 | 14 | 47 |
| # of Recaptures | 10 | 3 | 13 |
| # of Species | 14 | 10 | 21 |
| Effort (net-hours) | 142.5 | 87.4 | 229.9 |
| Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours) | 30.2 | 19.5 | 26.1 |
| # of Nets | 30 | 23 | 53 |
| 2021 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats | Captain Sam's | Little Bear | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| # Birds Banded | 189 | 94 | 283 |
| # of Recaptures | 51 | 11 | 62 |
| # of Species | 31 | 23 | 38 |
| Effort (net-hours) | 1164 | 468 | 1632 |
| Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours) | 20.6 | 22.4 | 21.1 |
| # of Days | 9 | 4 | - |
Banding Staff
