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Chris Southwick sent the following report from the second day of color-banding at her house this fall: My thanks to a great team today! 12 people. With so many banders, we were able to take care of all the birds we caught. Nets were open the whole time. (Picture is missing Mark Colombino, . . . → Read More: Color-banding Day 2… MAPS (Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship) is a cooperative program across North America that collects long-term data on population and demographics of numerous breeding bird species. PSBO’s 2011 MAPS banding program has been a great success. We ran two banding stations, one at Morse Preserve and the other on Joint Base Lewis-McChord. We banded . . . → Read More: 2011 Maps Season Written by PSBO Board Member and Apprentice, Ben Vang-Johnson: Adult Male Northern Harrier. Photo by Ben Vang-Johnson. I was fortunate enough to visit HawkWatch International’s raptor migration project near Lake Chelan, WA, in the Okanogan National Forest. Having previously worked as an official crew member for some of HawkWatch’s raptor migration projects, I . . . → Read More: Hawk Migration Banding – Sept. 5-6 Rimrock Burn. Photo by Dan Froehlich. PSBO’s banding blitz at the end of the 2010 season rounded out our mountain banding season with some unexpected excitement. On Tuesday evening we took a trip to banding sites we’ve used near Rimrock Lake in past years before fires prevented us from accessing the area in . . . → Read More: Meadows Banding Blitz August 17-18 Photo by Don Norman Don Norman is a board member of PSBO. He is currently working with Biodiversity Research Institute on the Deep Horizon Oil Spill. After helping PSBO for 3 weeks with training and banding in the high Cascade mountains, I arrived at Port Fourchon on the Gulf Coast on Tuesday morning . . . → Read More: An Early Fall Migration on Coastal Louisiana Photo by Dan Froehlich. Western Tanagers are very common at McDaniel Lake, cruising the timber, perching on exposed branches and even flycatching over the marsh. I observed one adult male get displaced from a stick in the marsh by a Spotted Sandpiper! This adult male is typical of the many adult males . . . → Read More: The regulars at McDaniel Lake Ryan, our Audubon staffer, let the Sora go out by the marsh where the students first discovered it. The bird took off from his hand, proving to be a remarkably strong flier. Ironically, it flew clear across the marsh and landed on the far bank of the pond; after a brief recovery, it ran . . . → Read More: Sora rail release All the students had a chance to hold the Sora so they could experience firsthand where the expression “thin as a rail” originates: rails actually show extreme lateral compression to their breastbone, presumably to aid their forays through their favored, densely vegetated marsh habitat. Sarah, our communications coordinator came up for a day, to . . . → Read More: Sora rail portraits Photo by Dan Froehlich The highlight of teen banding camp came on Thursday when the students flushed a Sora Rail out of the marsh that chanced to fly up toward the camp and tried to hide among some dark Ponderosa trunks. Everyone sprang into action to encircle the tree and trap the odd . . . → Read More: Think like a Sora Rail Photo by Dan Froehlich. Lincoln’s Sparrows up at Cash Prairie continued to pose identification challenges for the student Lincoln's Sparrow. Photo by Dan Froehlich. banders, illustrating that bird id in the hand is quite different than in the field. In the hand people use field marks quite different from those often . . . → Read More: Of sparrows & sapsuckers |
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