October 12, 2014

Today was another slow day, with slightly more birds then yesterday. We caught 50 new birds with 24 recaptures for a total of 20 species. Again, Gray Catbirds were our most abundant species followed by Common Yellowthroats.

NEW BIRDS
1 Common Ground-Dove
1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2 Red-eyed Vireo
1 House Wren
1 Swainson's Thrush
16 Gray Catbird
1 Northern Waterthrush
13 Common Yellowthroat
1 Northern Parula
2 Palm Warbler (Western)
1 Northern Cardinal
6 Indigo Bunting
4 Painted Bunting

RECAPTURES
1 White-eyed Vireo
1 House Wren
13 Gray Catbird
1 Ovenbird
4 Common Yellowthroat
3 Northern Cardinal
1 Painted Bunting

BANDING STATS
# of New Birds:  50
# of Recaptures:  24
# of Species:  20
Effort:  126.50 net-hours
Capture Rate:  58.5 birds/100 net-hours
# of Nets:  23

BANDING STAFF
Aaron Given
Mattie VandenBoom
Matt Zak
Libby Natola