Gray Catbird Morning

Last night's radar was rather unimpressive and did not indicate a huge flight of birds, but we were much busier than expected catching 151 birds of 19 different species (128 new, 23 recaptures).  More than 70% of our new birds (91 individuals) were Gray Catbirds, so I though this would be a good time to go back to the vault and resurrect an old blog post from 26 October 2013 which explains a few of the characteristics that we use to age Gray Catbirds.


NEW BIRDS
1 Common Ground-Dove
1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2 White-eyed Vireo
1 Red-eyed Vireo
2 House Wren
2 Swainson's Thrush
3 Wood Thrush
91 Gray Catbird
3 Ovenbird
1 Northern Waterthrush
12 Common Yellowthroat
2 American Redstart
2 Black-throated Blue Warbler
1 Palm Warbler (Western)
1 Northern Cardinal
2 Painted Bunting

RECAPTURES
1 Carolina Chickadee
1 House Wren
11 Gray Catbird
1 Northern Mockingbird
3 Common Yellowthroat
1 Chestnut-sided Warbler
2 Black-throated Blue Warbler

BANDING STATS
# of New Birds:  128
# of Recaptures:  23
# of Species:  19
Effort:  118.0 net-hours
Capture Rate:  128.0 birds/100 net-hours
# of Nets:  20

BANDING STAFF
Aaron Given
Mattie VandenBoom
Matt Zak
Libby Natola
William Oakley