Passing the Day with Prairie Warbler's at Captain Sam's

  CAPTAIN SAMS

Slow and steady at Captain Sam's. Given the gentle warm up we have had going at the start of the season we took the opportunity to attend to some of our more worn nets to keep ahead in good upkeep practices. 

Though slow, we have been seeing a number of Prairie Warblers coming through the station in the last couple of days. These are beautiful, dainty, little warblers that frequent clearings, forest edges, and other similarly scrubby habitats in the eastern portion of North America. Oftentimes when we think of prairies we think of the vast expanses of the Great Plains; but when Alexander Wilson first described this species near Bowling Green, Kentucky, the local residents used the term to describe a particular upland location of "barrens." Since Wilson's time the meaning has become more universally understood to be the expansive grasslands of the United States and Canada.

Prairie Warblers are a classic example of an edge species that has undergone extensive population increase and then decrease as abandoned farms, particularly in the Northeast, first became excellent habitat and then became overgrown and entirely unusable to the species. In Florida a separate subspecies dwells year-round in amongst the mangroves and orchids of the southern part of that state.

Beautiful Male Prairie Warbler

-Jeremiah

Species	Captain Sams		Little Bear
	New	Recaps	New	Recaps
White-eyed Vireo	1	-	-	-
Northern Waterthrush	1	-	-	-
American Redstart	-	1	-	-
Prairie Warbler	2	-	-	-
Northern Cardinal	-	2	-	-
Painted Bunting	3	-	-	-

Today's Banding Stats	Captain Sams	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	7	-	-
# of Recaptures	3	-	-
# of Species	6	-	-
Effort (net-hours)	120.6	-	-
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	12.0	-	-
# of Nets	35	-	-

2025 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats	Captain Sams	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	108	-	-
# of Recaptures	18	-	-
# of Species	19	-	-
Effort (net-hours)	520.6	-	-
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	24.2	-	-
# of Days	4	-

Banding Staff

Aaron Given (CS)

Michael Gamble (CS)

Liz Held (CS)

Arden Schneider (CS)

Camille Beckwith (CS)

Jeremiah Sullivan (CS)

Note:  All banding, marking, and sampling is being conducted under a federally authorized Bird Banding Permit issued by the U.S. Geological Survey’s Bird Banding Lab.