BANDING REPORT- Neawanna Wetland Preserve
14 April 2001

Method: Up to eight 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 414
Neawanna 105
Hours 3.5
Nets 8
Net*hours 28

Rufous Hummingbird RUHU 6
Common Bushtit BUSH 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet RCKI 3
Common Yellowthroat COYE 1

Recaptures
Black-capped Chickadee BCCH 1
Fox Sparrow FOSP 1
Song Sparrow SOSP 2

new captures 11
total captures 15
diversity 7
birds/(net*hour) 0.5
diversity/(net*hour) 0.25

Notes: All RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS captured today were females and
probably ssp calendula (large, gray). The recaptured BLACK-CAPPED
CHICKADEE was banded in its hatch-year, 8-22-1999. The SONG
SPARROWS were band 6-6-1999 and 7-8-1999 and the FOX SPARROW was
banded 2-19-2000. There were many COMMON YELLOWTHROATS and ORANGE-
CROWNED WARBLERS singing in the area. We also saw a BROWN-HEADED
COWBIRD singing his cowbird songs.

Further information on the Neawanna Wetland Project is
available at:
http://home.pacifier.com/~neawanna/observatory/observatory.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