Subject: BANDING REPORT: Neawanna Wetlands - 10/01/2000
Date: Oct 1 14:42:11 2000
From: Mike Patterson - celata at pacifier.com


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

10 Oct 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 1001
Neawanna 275
Hours 3
Nets 8
Net*hours 24

Common Yellowthroat COYE 1
Winter Wren WIWR 3
Fox Sparrow FOSP 10
Song Sparrow SOSP 1

Recaptures
Black-capped Chickadee BCCH 1

new captures 15
total captures 16
diversity 5
birds/(net*hour) 0.7
diversity/(net*hour) 0.2

Notes: It was a big FOX SPARROW day today, including an individual
with a large tumorous growth at its cloaca. 294 GREATER WHITE-
FRONTED GEESE were counted as flyovers over the course of the
morning.

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