CAPTAIN SAMS
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| Summer Tanager (after hatch year, male) |
Today was a fun and exciting day! We ended with a total of 191 birds! Our highest total this season! We added 2 new species to our station: Blue-headed Vireo and a Scarlet Tanager. We enjoyed our busy first few runs and then we slowly started to die down. I was impressed with the amount of Common Yellowthroats that were captured today. I am still holding out for some new warblers to show up and maybe tomorrow might be our day.
We managed to exceed our highest banded Painted Buntings for the season. We ended today with a total of 210 for the season. I'm excited to see what the outcome at the end of the season. My highest captured Painted Buntings was in 2022 with a total of 207. It was pretty excited exceed the expectation and I'm hoping to see more in the next month!
I'm hoping tomorrow stays about the same and we see some good birds!
-Kristin
| Species | Captain Sam's | Little Bear | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New | Recaps | New | Recaps | |
Yellow-billed Cuckoo | - | - | 1 | - |
Eastern Wood-pewee | - | - | 1 | - |
White-eyed Vireo | 11 | 2 | 14 | - |
Blue-headed Vireo | - | - | 1 | - |
Red-eyed Vireo | 9 | - | 7 | - |
Carolina Chickadee | 1 | 1 | - | - |
House Wren | - | - | 2 | - |
Gray Catbird | 18 | - | 18 | - |
Brown Thrasher | 1 | - | 1 | - |
Veery | 1 | - | 1 | - |
Swainson's Thrush | 18 | - | 7 | - |
Wood Thrush | 1 | - | - | - |
Yellow-breasted Chat | 1 | - | - | - |
Ovenbird | - | - | 1 | - |
Northern Waterthrush | - | - | 1 | 2 |
Black-and-white Warbler | - | - | 2 | - |
Swainson's Warbler | 1 | - | - | - |
Common Yellowthroat | 147 | 9 | 96 | 3 |
American Redstart | 17 | - | 11 | - |
| Cape May Warbler | 3 | - | 1 | - |
| Northern Parula | 5 | - | - | - |
| Yellow Warbler | 2 | - | 2 | - |
| Black-throated Blue Warbler | 2 | - | 2 | - |
| Palm Warbler (western subspecies) | 6 | - | 2 | - |
| Prairie Warbler | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Summer Tanager | 2 | - | - | - |
| Scarlet Tanager | - | - | 1 | - |
| Northern Cardinal | - | 1 | - | 2 |
| Indigo Bunting | 1 | - | - | - |
| Painted Bunting | 9 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| Today's Banding Stats | Captain Sams | Little Bear | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| # Birds Banded | 256 | 177 | 433 |
| # of Recaptures | 16 | 14 | 30 |
| # of Species | 22 | 23 | 30 |
| Effort (net-hours) | 200 | 166.4 | 366.4 |
| Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours) | 136 | 114.8 | 126.3 |
| # of Nets | 32 | 26 | 58 |
| 2024 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats | Captain Sams | Little Bear | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| # Birds Banded | 2,469 | 1,580 | 4,050 |
| # of Recaptures | 548 | 406 | 954 |
| # of Species | 58 | 57 | 70 |
| Effort (net-hours) | 7,600.45 | 4,447 | 12,047.45 |
| Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours) | 39.7 | 44.65 | 41.5 |
| # of Days | 47 | 39 |
Banding Staff
Aaron Given (CS)