Banding Report for Neawanna Banding Station
Seaside, Clatsop Co. OR

17 Jun 2000

Method: Up to ten 9m mist nets are placed in mixed Oregon
Crabapple/Twinberry/Spruce along the the upper Neawanna River,
Seaside, Clatsop Co. OR. 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.


2000 0701
Neawanna 183
Hours 3.5
Nets 8
Net*hours 28

Orange-crowned Warbler OCWA 2
Common Yellowthroat COYE 2
Swainson's Thrush SWTH 1
Cedar Waxwing CEDW 1
Winter Wren WIWR 1
Marsh Wren MAWR 1
Black-headed Grosbeak BHGR 1
Song Sparrow SOSP 7
Purple Finch PUFI 1

Recaptures
Swainson's Thrush SWTH 1
Song Sparrow SOSP 4

new captures 17
total captures 22
diversity 9
birds/(net*hour) 0.8
diversity/(net*hour) 0.3

NOTES: The weather was overcast and cool which probably
contributed to the higher than expected number of captures.
The BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK was a hatching year bird as were
the wrens and most of the SONG SPARROWS. It is apparently
a good year for Song Sparrow reproduction.

Further information on the Neawanna Wetland Project is
available at:
http://columbia-pacific.interrain.org/ahscience/neawanna/neaw.html

--
Mike Patterson Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo,
Astoria, OR it is not enough to be persecuted
celata at pacifier.com by an unkind establishment,
you must also be right.
---Robert Park
http://www.pacifier.com/~mpatters/bird/bird.html