Sunday, August 26, 2012

Sunday's Results

The banding assistants have arrived!  Welcome - DeeAnne, Meghan, and Michael!  For the first time this fall, we opened all 16 nets however the bird activity was still rather slow.  We banded 17 new bird with 7 recaptures of 9 different species. 

 

THE RESULTS

 

NEW BIRDS

6 American Redstarts

2 Prairie Warbler

1 Yellow Warbler

1 Common Yellowthroat

1 Red-eyed Vireo

1 Downy Woodpecker

1 Painted Bunting

4 Northern Cardinal

 

RECAPTURES

1 Prairie Warbler

1 Carolina Wren

3 Painted Bunting

2 Northern Cardinal

 

BANDING STATS

Effort: 86.4 net-hours

Capture Rate: 27.8 birds/100 net-hours

# of Nets:  16