Captain Sam's First Yellow-crowned Night Heron

 CAPTAIN SAMS 

It was another slow morning with only 10 new birds and 9 recaptures of 11 species. However, we did have an exciting capture on the first net run of a Yellow-crowned Night Heron. This individual has been hanging around the banding trails the last couple of weeks picking off crabs and we were lucky enough to capture it in a net this morning. Little Bear has captured several Yellow-crowned Night Herons over the years but this is the first one for Captain Sam's.

Yellow-crowned Night Heron (hatch year, unknown sex)

-Michael

 
LITTLE BEAR

It was too windy to band at Little Bear this morning. 

Species	Captain Sam's		Little Bear
	New	Recaps	New	Recaps
Yellow-crowned Night Heron	1	-	-	-
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	-	1	-	-
Gray Catbird	2	1	-	-
Hermit Thrush	2	-	-	-
Yellow-breasted Chat	-	1	-	-
Northern Parula	1	-	-	-
Common Yellowthroat	-	3	-	-
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)	1	-	-	-
Northern Cardinal	-	1	-	-
Indigo Bunting	2	-	-	-
Painted Bunting	1	2	-	-

Today's Banding Stats	Captain Sams	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	10	-	10
# of Recaptures	9	-	9
# of Species	11	-	11
Effort (net-hours)	169.8	-	169.8
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	11.2	-	11.2
# of Nets	32	-	32

2025 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats	Captain Sams	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	4,486	3,153	7,639
# of Recaptures	903	813	1,716
# of Species	88	82	100
Effort (net-hours)	11,319.1	8,203.1	19,522.2
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	47.6	48.3	47.9
# of Days	71	61

Banding Staff

Michael Gamble (CS)

Liz Held (CS)

Arden Schneider (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.