BANDING REPORT- Neawanna Wetland Preserve
20 May 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 0520
Neawanna 150
Hours 4
Nets 8
Net*hours 32

Rufous Hummingbird RUHU 2
Pacific-slope Flycatcher PSFL 1
Yellow Warbler YWAR 1
Macgillivray's Warbler MGVW 1
Wilson's Warbler WIWA 1
Swainson's Thrush SWTH 1
Black-headed Grosbeak BHGR 1
Song Sparrow SOSP 1

Recaptures
American Robin AMRO 1 02-19-2000
Black-headed Grosbeak BHGR 1 05-13-2000
Song Sparrow SOSP 1 04-18-1999
Brown-headed Cowbird BHCO 1 05-13-2000

new captures 9
total captures 13
diversity 10
birds/(net*hour) 0.4
diversity/(net*hour) 0.3

Notes: It was a high diversity low volume day. The most
interesting bird was a recaptured BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK first
captured last spring. We also caught a bright yellow PACIFIC-
SLOPE FLYCATCHER.

This week's bird in the hand:
http://home.pacifier.com/~neawanna/neotrops/psfl20010520a.jpg
http://home.pacifier.com/~neawanna/neotrops/bhgr20010520.jpg

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