Tag: banding
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a Flicker of a catch
Last Wednesday (8/22 to be more precise) was our second to last banding day. The Institute for Bird Populations (IBP) which is the entity overseeing all MAPS banding stations stated that in periods 8 – 10, the young of the year will predominate in the catch. What this means—or should mean—for us is that we…
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a face only a mother could love
Last Friday morning (4:00 AM to be exact), Amy and I very sleepily headed out to our Canyon Creek banding station, with John taking the reins driving the pickup. All in all, we’ve had a very productive season, and that Friday was no exception; we banded a total of 18 birds, 14 of which we…
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banding, etc.
Charlotte and I have been working hard and getting out to our study site almost every day. We went out banding two days ago, and caught lots of birds, including yellow warblers, robins, and brown thrashers. We also recaptured a male house wren that sabrina banded two years ago (exciting!). Here are some of the…
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MAPS and a PSA (acronym soup!)
Last Friday, John, Nina, and I did our very first banding run at the Canyon Creek MAPS site. Just as a rehash, a MAPS station is a bird-banding station where you catch wild birds in mist nets and look at their physical traits to help assess survivorship and productivity of avian populations. John and Sabrina…