tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31058316836991717502024-12-18T21:26:15.326-06:00Stories behind birds and their bands.heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06376018353561979984noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3105831683699171750.post-75135588404106084212013-01-16T06:00:00.000-06:002013-01-16T06:00:18.046-06:00

Thanks to eBird.org for this news of an 8 and a half year old Northern Shrike! http://ebird.org/content/wi/news/the-oldest-northern-shrike-in-north-america

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Snagged straight off of facebook, for obvious reasons: The Center for Conservation Biology CCB has tracked 3 whimbrels off the east coast of Canada to the northern shore of South America via a previously unknown migration pathway over the open Atlantic Ocean. The route passed through the center of the vast Atlantic at one point passing 1,000 miles closer to Africa than to North America and

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The Gulf Coast Bird Observatory is a powerhouse of conservation, based in Lake Jackson, Texas - but with partners all over the place! This blog could almost sustain itself on their projects alone, but they do a great job keeping their site current on activities and their newsletters are just some of the highlights! Here are two snippets from their August newsletter... The August newsletter from

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What is black and white and red all over? Ok, really it's black and brown and red and white with slightly pinkish/pale legs. The American Oystercatcher - it is a bold, stocky shorebird with a red beak (or red bill, if you prefer), black head and neck, dark brown back and bright white belly. You are most likely to see them along a salty coastline or marsh and... yes, they will be eating bivalves.

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Not sure how this blog has never been featured before: Los Farallones is just about the best blog on the planet for bird research... and that includes banding. Most recently, they posted Wild Nights at Club Farallon - which highlights the mist-netting of Ashy Storm Petrels for data collection. They host a great variety of bird posts, marine mammal posts... everything in/on/around the island is

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It's no secret - I'm a HUGE fan of the Gulf Coast Bird Observatory - they have fantastic outreach programs to familiarize the public with research (not sure if the Xtreme Hummingbird Xtravaganza has been covered on this blog before, but it needs to happen!) There's a great effort put forth by GCBO to track American Oystercatchers along the Upper and Central Texas coast, the e-mail below is

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Birds captured in mist nets for banding are often in less than dignified poses, and it's quite curious to see an entire slideshow of birds in mist nets - especially on a stark white background. Not really science here, but... art as a spinoff of research? Click here for the article and slideshow about the work of Todd Forsgren

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Via Les Stewart on the Texbirds facebook group: "Had this banded Mourning Dove show up in my yard in Nacogdoches twice this week (or it could be two different banded doves). Anyway just wondering who is tagging Mourning Doves and if I should report it anywhere. I assume that would be useless, unless I shoot it and get the tag number and I wasn't planning on that..."

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The more we know... well, the more we know! "American Oystercatcher 'N 1,' Haematopus palliatus, at the Texas City dike, 26 July 2012. This bird was tagged at the Nature Conservancy's Texas City Prairie Preserve, up the coast a bit. Its mate has a broken wing and is in rehab, so 'N 1' may have left to search for a new mate." Click here for the photo.

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Via Birding is Fun: banded Prairie Warblers at Montague Sandplains IBA. No word on their background, or the project - but with multiple banded birds around, it's likely a target species for a study.

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White-winged Dove in a residential area in Victoria, TX (kind of the central coast - ish), likely part of a population study; via Texas Nature Notes!

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Anahuac NWR, on the Upper Texas Coast, is my old stomping ground... and now there are almost 200 banded Black-necked Stilts roaming around! Wish I were down there.   ****   Texbirders,   Anahuac has been slow but steady through June. Shorebirds have returned, with up to 17 species seen (18 Jun).   Highlights include:   bronzed cowbird (male) continues by

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Via Vince Cavalieri, one of the brains behind this project! The Great Lakes piping plover population has its own survivor story like B95 (aka moonbird) the red knot. This is YOGs, currently our oldest known Great Lakes piping plover. In her 13 years, YOGs has flown something like 39,000 miles in migrations, well more than enough to fly completely around the

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'Moonbird' is a Red Knot that has gotten some great coverage lately, not to mention a whole book! Latest news is here: B95, the great survivor Knots face some pretty amazing travel challenges as well as food shortages due to overharvesting of horseshoe crabs - the article above really does a nice job of covering some of those obstacles and outlining why the name 'moonbird' is appropriate. Namely

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Over the weekend, a banded Western Scrub Jay was seen - without camera or binoculars - with a silver leg band (observer does not recall which leg) at the L.E. Woods picnic area in the Davis Mts. Sightings like this are a bit frustrating because it takes a lot of asking - and asking who to ask - to find out about the bird. And you'll never know the individual's story, beyond a banding. So, to keep

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Become an Osprey Watcher: Connect with a global community of observersThe Center for Conservation Biology has launched Osprey-Watch, a project created to engage a global community to collect data on breeding osprey. Linked by an interest in osprey and a concern for the health of the aquatic environments on which they rely, this community will for the first time provide a global perspective on

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For folks who are wondering about where young Scissor-tailed Flycatchers go, here's a study trying to determine just that! So keep an eye out for banded STFL!***From: dvl04 AT hotmail.comSent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 10:42 PMTo: OKBIRDS AT LISTS.OU.EDUSubject: [OKBIRDS] Scissor-tailed Flycatchers to watch forHi, OKbirders!My name is Diane Landoll and I am a PhD student at the University of

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165-Year-Old Mystery of Disappearing Black Swift SolvedVia the American Bird ConservancySnippets:Where the high flying bird vanishes to after breeding and spending summers in many parts of western North America has puzzled ornithologists since the species was discovered in 1857. Now, thanks to a new study, we learn that at least some of them travel about 4,300 miles to a remote part of western

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From a Texbirds post, re: a banded Golden-cheeked Warbler photographed by Sean Paul Kelly (click here for the photos) "This bird is part of the Balcones Canyonlands Preserve Golden-cheeked Warbler study that is now going on. This bird was banded last year on April 20th at Emma Long Park."Subject: banded Golden-cheeked WarblersFrom: Bill Reiner (spizella/AT/SBCGLOBAL/./NET)Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012

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(Photo via Mark Flippo of Birding Big Bend)"A Mexican Jay near the Pinnacles campsites in the Chisos: note the silver band on the bird's left leg. In 1996-97 a graduate student came to BBNP to conduct research on Mexican jays and banded a number of birds, including some hatch year birds. Either he never completed his work or he didn't publish so there is no record of study results but an

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Via Texbirds, pre-dated and modified for format and lack of photos:Here is a repost from last year, if you see Piping Plovers with colored bands:Here is some info on what to do if you see a banded or unbanded Piping Plover. It was sent to me in 2008 from Cheri Gratto-Trevor, a Canadian researcher. Research and researchers come and go, so I'm not sure if all of the info is still current, but it's

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Original post from Big Bend Birds & Nature.This bird was not found banded but the process is too interesting to resist posting here!***Allen's Hummingbird (Selasphorus sasin) vs. Rufous Hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus)Most Rufous Hummingbirds have at least some green flecks on their backs at some point of growing up. Some lose them by the time of adulthood. Some keep or gain more into a "

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From:THE BIRDING COMMUNITY E-BULLETIN October 2011 WHIMBREL LOSS RAISES ISSUES ACROSS THE CARIBBEAN As part of an international effort to map shorebird migration, Whimbrels on the Eastern Shore in Virginia have recently been fitted with satellite tracking devices. Some of these birds have been tracked for years. This is a project previously brought to the attention of E-bulletin readers, most

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This time from NPR: The Toughest Little Bird You've Never Heard OfI'd lump it in with the previous few posts on Atlantic migrating Whimbrels, but these are the Pacific ones with a very different story than their Atlantic brethren. Basically instead of having a cushy (or deadly) stopover spot in the Bahamas, the west coast critters go straight from Alaska to New Zealand, though some go to

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Goshen, a shorebird tracked by scientists, becomes second study bird to be lost on GuadeloupeUnfortunately, large birds are often hunted outside of the US; tracking birds tells us not only about migration routes but also the unfortunate pressures they face. Goshen was a Whimbrel, but even American White Pelicans become food. (Follow-up to American White Pelican post is here)

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