BANDING REPORT- Neawanna Wetland Preserve
02/04/2003

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.

Winter sparrow efforts will place special emphasis on identifying
FOX SPARROWS, SONG SPARROWS and WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS to
subspecies.

2003 0204
Neawanna 35
Hours 2.5
Nets 5
Net*hours 12.5

Black-capped Chickadee BCCH 2
Bewick's Wren BEWR 1
Marsh Wren MAWR 1
Dark-eyed Junco ORJU 4
Spotted Towhee SPTO 1
Fox Sparrow FOSP 2
Song Sparrow SOSP 2
House Finch HOFI 2

Recaptures first capture date
Black-capped Chickadee BCCH 2 08/22/1999
02/17/2001
Bewick's Wren BEWR 1 08/15/2002
Dark-eyed Junco ORJU 2 03/26/2002
01/09/2003
Golden-crowned Sparrow GCSP 1 09/28/2002
Fox Sparrow FOSP 1 02/12/2000
Song Sparrow SOSP 1 01/27/2001

new captures 16
total captures 24
diversity 9
birds/(net*hour) 1.9
diversity/(net*hour) 0.8

We had a pretty good banding day for the "dead" of winter. Clear
skies, almost no wind and temperatures in the low 40's helped some.
Most interesting bird was a 4 year old (recaptured) BLACK-CAPPED
CHICKADEE with a eleven normal colored tail feathers and one white
tail feather that was still growing in. This is probably an example
of stress related leucism; a feather is lost, let's say, in a close
encounter with a cat, ocassionally these grow back white.

http://home.pacifier.com/~neawanna/observatory/observatory.html

--
Mike Patterson
Astoria, OR
celata at pacifier.com

A child who becomes acquainted with the birds about him
hears every sound and puzzles out its meaning with a cleverness
that amazes those with ears who hear not.

-Neltje Blanchan

http://www.pacifier.com/~mpatters/bird/bird.html