Friday, November 2, 2018

Second ever Slate-colored Junco for KIBS!

Captain Sam's:

Today was an extremely slow day. Only 5 new birds were banded today and 13 birds were recaptures. I hope that tomorrow will be a better day with more birds!

-Kristin


Little Bear:

The forecasted rain managed to miss us this morning, allowing us a full day of banding. Despite being a slow day, we did have some worthwhile captures. We were pleasantly surprised to band the second ever Slate-colored Junco for KIBS! I didn't realize it was such a rare event when I extracted it, but Michael's expression when I returned to the banding table told all. After contacting Aaron, we found out the only other junco banded for KIBS was in 2012 at Captain Sam's! There is a wide range of geographic variation in Dark-eyed Juncos, with six forms being most often used to separate them. From my time banding out west, I'm used to seeing the Oregon variation, so it was fun to see the Slate-colored in hand. The same net run provided us with two new House Finches and my first time to band one! Overall, we banded 11 new birds and recaptured 11 of 8 species.


Slate-colored Junco (hatch-year, male)

House Finch (after-hatch-year, male)


-Meredith



 SpeciesCaptain Sam'sLittle Bear
NewRecapsNewRecaps
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1-
White-eyed Vireo---1
Gray Catbird1819
House Finch--2-
Eastern Towhee-1-1
Song Sparrow1-1-
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)--1-
Orange-crowned Warbler-11-
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle's)2-5-
Northern Cardinal-2-
Painted Bunting-1


Today's Banding StatsCaptain Sam'sLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
5
11
16
# of Recaptures
13
11
24
# of Species
8
8
11
Effort (net-hours)
140
116
256
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
12.9
19
15.6
# of Nets
28
20
48


2018 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats Captain Sam'sLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
3,164
2,469
5,633
# of Recaptures
879
433
1,312
# of Species
71
70
86
Effort (net-hours)
8,501.3
3,912.9
12,414.2
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
47.6
74.2
55.9
# of Days7259-

Banding Staff

Aaron Given (CS)
Michael Gamble (LB)
Meredith Heather (LB)
DanaĆ© Mouton (LB)
Kristin Attinger (CS)