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

29 May 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 0529
Neawanna 150
Hours 3.75
Nets 8
Net*hours 30

Rufous Hummingbird RUHU 3
Pacific-slope Flycatcher PSFL 1
Yellow Warbler YWAR 11
Wilson's Warbler WIWA 3
Common Yellowthroat COYE 1
Swainson's Thrush SWTH 2
Black-headed Grosbeak BHGR 1
Song Sparrow SOSP 1
Purple Finch PUFI 1

Recaptures
Brown-headed Cowbird BHCO 1

new captures 24
total captures 25
diversity 10
birds/(net*hour) 0.8
diversity/(net*hour) 0.3

NOTES: A hatch-year RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD was among the captured
species today. There were obvious movements of YELLOW WARBLERS
and WARBLING VIREOS. A single male BULLOCK'S ORIOLE (rare in
Clatsop Co.) made an appearence at 0945hrs.

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