Painfully slow day of banding. We only banded 4 new birds with 4 recaptures of 5 different species. Highlights of the day were a female HOODED WARBLER and a male COMMON GROUND-DOVE.
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| Hooded Warbler (hatch-year, female) |
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| Common Ground-Dove (second-year, male) |
We have been catching several Painted Buntings in the nets lately with a majority of them being juvenile (hatch-year) birds. Hatch-year Painted Buntings can be separated fairly easily from adults by the presence of light buffy edging on their greater coverts.
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| Painted Bunting (hatch-year, sex unknown) |
NEW BIRDS
1 Common Ground-Dove
1 Hooded Warbler
2 Painted Bunting
RECAPTURES
1 Brown Thrasher
1 Northern Cardinal
2 Painted Bunting
BANDING STATS
Effort: 73.6 net-hours
Capture Rate: 10.9 birds/100 net-hours
# of Nets: 16
