FOS Tennessee Warbler

Captain Sam's
Today was a great day! There was a total of 51 newly banded birds and 20 recaptures. We got a new bird of the season, the Tennessee Warbler!
Tennessee Warblers are a very uncommon migrating bird that can pass through the coast side on South Carolina. Given their name, Tennessee Warbler are not found in Tennessee, but they do pass through during migration. They breed up north, mainly in Canada.

Other than the Tennessee Warbler being new, we caught a Gray Catbird that had a unique coloration. This bird, usually all gray, had white patches under the chin and on the belly. It also carried some of this pigmentation to its toes! This is usually caused when there is a loss of pigmentation and no color is produced, except for a white color. This Gray Catbird only carries this pigmentation in little parts throughout its body.  Check out the bird below!

Gray Catbird (hatch-year, unknown sex)

Gray Catbird (hatch-year, unknown sex)

-Kristin


Little Bear 
Although not quite as exciting as yesterday, today was a great day for banding at Little Bear. In total we had 82 new birds, 5 recaptures, and 17 species total. Two of those species were new for the site this season-- a Hooded Warbler and two Blue Grosbeaks. Joanne was excited to band these new species since she had seen neither of them in the hand before. My favorite birds of the day were an after hatch-year Yellow-billed Cuckoo and several Indigo Buntings. While processing birds, we also had a Pileated Woodpecker fly right by the banding table. It is rare to see these birds at Little Bear since they typically prefer more forested habitat. Fingers crossed that one will fly into our nets!

Hatch-year Male Indigo Bunting
(notice the bright blue on the top of the wing and on the tail)

Hatch-year Male Hooded Warbler

- Danaé

Species	Captain Sam's		Little Bear
	New	Recaps	New	Recaps
Yellow-billed Cuckoo	2	-	1	-
Downy Woodpecker	-	1	-	-
"Traill's" Flycatcher	1	-	-	-
White-eyed Vireo	-	1	-	-
Red-eyed Vireo	2	-	-	-
Carolina Chickadee	-	2	-	1
House Wren	-	-	2	-
Carolina Wren	-	1	-	-
Swainson's Thrush	-	-	1	-
Gray Catbird	13	9	20	-
Brown Thrasher	-	-	1	-
Ovenbird	1	-	-	-
Black-and-white Warbler	1	-	-	-
Tennessee Warbler	2	-	-	-
Common Yellowthroat	16	1	27	1
Hooded Warbler	-	-	1	-
American Redstart	4	-	4	-
Cape May Warbler	-	-	1	-
Northern Parula	1	-	-	-
Yellow Warbler	1	-	3	-
Black-throated Blue Warbler	2	-	2	-
Palm Warbler (Western)	3	-	9	-
Northern Cardinal	1	2	-	1
Blue Grosbeak	-	-	2	-
Indigo Bunting	1	-	4	-
Painted Bunting	-	2	4	2

Today's Banding Stats	Captain Sam's	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	51	82	133
# of Recaptures	19	5	24
# of Species	20	17	26
Effort (net-hours)	113.6	64.6	178.2
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	61.6	134.7	88.1
# of Nets	28	20	48

2018 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats	Captain Sam's	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	1355	1,039	2,394
# of Recaptures	337	167	504
# of Species	47	43	57
Effort (net-hours)	5070.4	2109.55	7179.95
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	33.4	57.2	40.4
# of Days	44	37	-

Banding Staff
Aaron Given (CS)
Michael Gamble (LB)
Danaé Mouton (LB)
Kristin Attinger (CS)
Joanne Hamilton (LB)
Joel Throckmorton (CS)
Nancy Raginski (LB)