Banding Report for Ft Stevens Banding Station
Ft Stevens St Pk, Clatsop Co. OR

13 Sep 1998

Method: Up to six 9m mist nets are placed in perpendicular
sets in willow wetland habitat near the South Jetty of the
Columbia River. Captured birds are measured, ringed with
USBBL numbered metal bands and released. Data on time of
capture and side of net captured are also recorded to gain
an understanding of movements through the area.

9/13
Hours 3
Nets 6
Net*hours 18

Black-capped Chickadee BCCH 1
Common Bushtit BUSH 9
Golden-crowned Kinglet GCKI 2
Hutton's Vireo HUVI 1
Orange-crowned Warbler OCWA 1
Common Yellowthroat COYE 5
Winter Wren WIWR 7
Song Sparrow SOSP 2

Recaptures
BCCH 1
BUSH 2
WREN 1
HUVI 1

total captures 33
diversity 9
birds/(net*hour) 1.8
diversity/(net*hour) 0.5

Notes: WINTER WREN numbers continue to increase. Eleven
COMMON BUSHTITS caught together once again tips the
birds/net/hr values. Heard over the course of the morning
was a flock of EVENING GROSBEAK and several RED-BREASTED
NUTHATCHES.

For more information from the Ft Stevens Banding Station:
http://www.pacifier.com/~mpatters/bird/FTST_station.html


--

Mike Patterson, Astoria, OR _Birds and other Wildlife of the
mpatters at orednet.org Columbia River Estuary_
http://www.pacifier.com/~mpatters/bird/book_ad.html