[TN-Bird] final SIWR banding report
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- Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:03:47 -0700 (PDT)
Hi folks,
This year, with the help of many good folks, Jim Giocomo, Mark
Armstrong and I banded birds at Seven Islands Wildlife Refuge (SIWR).
We had 10 nets opened for parts of just 8 days as part of a
continent-wide protocol called Monitoring Avian Productivity and
Survivorship (MAPS for short).
This breeding-season project is designed to help determine how many
birds breed in an area, how successful they are, and what their nest
site fidelity is (do they come back every year?) Traditionally, MAPS
stations capture far fewer birds than migration stations. However
this site is so rich in birds that it compares with many migration
sites. Hopefully this will translate, in coming years, to many
recaptured birds, since those are the ones from which we learn the
most.
Thanks to efforts of the Seven Islands Foundation and particularly
the site manager Wayne Shacher, native plants are being restored and
this should mean good news for birds in the coming years. We hope
this MAPS station will be a tool for Wayne and folks to determine the
success of their efforts.
We are already looking for help for next year. The first banding day
will be between May 20 and May 30. The nets are busy and opportunity
both to learn and to see uncommon/hard-to-see birds is high!
Numbers are below.
Charlie
Species Banded Recaptured Unbanded
Orchard Oriole 13 5 0
Northern Cardinal 18 9 2
Common Yellowthroat 21 7 2
Indigo Bunting 64 10 8
Willow Flycatcher 3 5 0
"Traill's" Flycatcher 2 0 0 (probably willow)
Yellow-breasted Chat 18 6 0
Song Sparrow 53 13 4
Grasshopper Sparrow 4 1 2
Eastern Towhee 3 1 2
Brown Thrasher 7 2 0
Eastern Phoebe 23 2 0
Carolina Wren 13 5 3
Red-winged Blackbird 23 1 0
Northern Mockingbird 9 1 0
Field Sparrow 33 3 1
American Goldfinch 26 1 3
European Starling 0 0 3
Northern Bobwhite 0 0 2
Ruby-throated Hummingbi 0 0 2
Cedar Waxwing 1 0 1
American Woodcock 0 0 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 0 0
Carolina Chickadee 1 0 0
N. Rough-winged Swallow 3 0 0
Prothonotary Warbler 1 0 0
House Finch 19 0 0
Louisiana Waterthrush 1 0 0
Brown-headed Cowbird 18 0 0
Blue Grosbeak 2 0 0
Eastern Kingbird 3 0 0
Downy Woodpecker 1 0 0
Scarlet Tanager 1 0 0
Common Grackle 1 0 0
Totals 387 72 36
total birds handled 495
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Charlie Muise, Naturalist in
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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the whole world sparkles with light." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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