Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Wednesday's Results

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.




Hooded Warbler (hatch-year, female)


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.



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