CAPTAIN SAMS
Today was a decent day. We ended our day with 1 more bird than yesterday. We ended with a total of 65 birds. Only 16 recaptures which makes 49 of those birds newly banded. We added 2 new species to the station; a Yellow-shafted Flicker and a Song Sparrow! I was pretty excited for the flicker. We have been seeing them more periodically this past week and I was hoping one would find our net. It started out with 2 of them hanging on our tree next to the table, then as I was going through the nets I find on in a net! I was pretty excited to bring it back and show it off. I don't typically get them in the hands and this makes my third flicker I have held in the hand. It has also been a good few years since I last held one (2019 to be exact).
I am hoping we still get a few left over or some late leavers over the next few weeks before we start to catch only are late migrants. Still holding out for some fun warblers but also I am happy to see the Yellow-rump Warblers start to show up!
-Kristin
Species | Captain Sam's | Little Bear | ||
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New | Recaps | New | Recaps | |
Yellow-billed Cuckoo | - | - | 1 | - |
Northern Flicker (yellow-shafted) | - | - | 1 | - |
Eastern Phoebe | 1 | - | 4 | - |
Carolina Chickadee | - | - | - | 1 |
Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 2 | - | 2 | 1 |
House Wren | 4 | - | 4 | - |
Gray Catbird | 5 | 6 | 22 | 8 |
Brown Thrasher | - | 1 | - | - |
Gray-cheeked Thrush | 1 | - | - | - |
Swainson's Thrush | - | - | 1 | - |
Song Sparrow | 1 | - | 2 | - |
Eastern Towhee | - | - | - | 1 |
Common Yellowthroat | 2 | 2 | 3 | - |
American Redstart | - | 1 | 1 | - |
Palm Warbler (western subspecies) | 2 | - | 4 | - |
Yellow-rumped Warbler (myrtle subspecies) | 1 | - | 3 | 1 |
Northern Cardinal | 1 | - | - | 1 |
Painted Bunting | - | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Today's Banding Stats | Captain Sams | Little Bear | TOTAL |
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# Birds Banded | 20 | 49 | 69 |
# of Recaptures | 11 | 16 | 27 |
# of Species | 13 | 16 | 18 |
Effort (net-hours) | 172.8 | 119.6 | 292.4 |
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours) | 17.9 | 54.35 | 32.8 |
# of Nets | 32 | 26 | 58 |
2024 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats | Captain Sams | Little Bear | TOTAL |
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# Birds Banded | 3,510 | 2,256 | 5,768 |
# of Recaptures | 679 | 561 | 1,238 |
# of Species | 74 | 69 | 88 |
Effort (net-hours) | 9,474.7 | 5,730.6 | 15,205.6 |
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours) | 44.2 | 49.2 | 46.1 |
# of Days | 58 | 49 |
Banding Staff