9/17/16 Bird Banding Workshop at Walker's Farm

Bird Banding Workshop at Walker's Farm
led by Steve Reinert and Deirdre Robinson
6 participants
5 birds banded
10 birds seen but not banded
15 species altogether

• 1 Osprey Pandion haliaetus
• 1 Cooper's Hawk Accipiter cooperii
• chased (but missed) a newly banded and released Common Yellowthroat
• 8 Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
• 1 Merlin Falco columbarius seen initially by Don Heitzman; later seen by most workshop participants
• 3 Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata
• 5 American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos
• 3 Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus
• 1 Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus
• 7 Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
• 170 European Starling Sturnus vulgaris
• 5 Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum
• 1 Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
• 11 Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
• 15 House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus
• 19 American Goldfinch Spinus tristis
• ​5 Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum

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All images below were taken by Deirdre Robinson