Yay!
Kevin
On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 8:21 AM, Jeff Kozma <
jcr_5105 at charter.net> wrote:
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Hello, Tweeters.
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Thank you so much for reporting this bird again! It is great to know that
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he is on a territory. A little history on this bird…he had quite an
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upbringing. His father was banded in 2013 (YWWX, but is now only WWX as he
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lost his right yellow band) in the Wenas near the Mud Flats Road as a
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hatch-year bird (HY). He has bred in the Wenas starting in 2015 (we did
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not find a breeding attempt in 2014, but that doesn't mean it didn't
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happen). Last year he was breeding near the Ellensburg-Wenas Road with an
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unbanded female. Sometime after the eggs hatched, the female disappeared
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(probably killed by a raptor). He was left to raise the nestlings
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himself. He fledged 2 nestlings, both males, from this nesting attempt.
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We caught and banded both in late summer. This bird at the Railroad Ponds
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was one of his offspring and is banded Orange over Red on the right leg and
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metal (aluminum numbered band) over white on the left leg. Thus, this bird
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traveled a minimum straight line distance of about 23 miles! This is quite
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a good distance for a non-migratory woodpecker.
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I thank everyone over the last few weeks who has seen this bird and
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reported it to us. This is vitally important information for our banding
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program and the first of "our" birds to be sighted by someone outside the
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study area! For all in tweeterville, please look carefully at all
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White-headed Woodpeckers (WHWO) wherever you are in WA and check their legs
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for bands. You can report the bands to me (email below) or on your ebird
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lists, starting with the right leg and then the left leg. Even if you only
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see two colored bands, sometimes that is enough to ID the bird. Every WHWO
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we band is given a unique color combination, but mated pairs, if we catch
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them in the same year, are banded the same color combo because we can tell
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the sexes by plumage. Also, if anyone sees any of our banded birds, or any
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banded bird for that matter, please fill out a band/color marker resighting
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report at https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/BBL/bblretrv/ . This will enable the
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bird banding lab to track resighting information in their database, you
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will receive a certificate stating information on where and when the bird
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was banded, and I will receive notification that a resighting has
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occurred. Reporting to the Bird Banding Lab demonstrates to them that
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banding is still an important endeavor and helps facilitate the
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continuation of projects like ours.
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If others see this Cle Elum bird in subsequent years, report it again to
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me! That will give us some idea how long it occupies this territory.
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Thanks all!
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Jeff
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Jeff Kozma
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TFW Wildlife Biologist
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Yakama Nation Fisheries Resource Management
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P.O. Box 151
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Toppenish, WA 98948
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C - 509-945-4926
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F - 509-865-6293
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e-mail - kozj at yakamafish-nsn.gov
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website - Avian Research in Managed Ponderosa Pine Forests of Washington
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| Yakama Nation Fisheries
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<http://yakamafish-nsn.gov/restore/projects/avian-research-managed-ponderosa-pine-forests-washington>
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*From:* rwlawson at q.com [mailto:rwlawson at q.com]
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*Sent:* Monday, May 07, 2018 12:03 AM
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*To:* tweeters at u.washington.edu
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*Cc:* kozj at yakamafish-nsn.gov; joe.brown at q.com
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*Subject:* White-headed Woodpecker, Railroad Ponds, Cle Elum
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Today, Joseph Brown and I birded in the Cle Elum area. We were surprised
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to see a male White-headed Woodpecker at the Northern Pacific Railroad
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Ponds, close to the kiosk. I suspect that this is the same individual
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reported on 21 April by Jordan Gunn. If so, this bird has been in the area
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a while, and we saw him drumming, so perhaps he is setting up a territory.
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Interestingly, this woodpecker was color-banded. We couldn't get a good
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look at the bands; all I could see was white on the left leg (probably
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including the aluminum BBL band) and red on the right. This must be one of
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Jeff Kozma's banded birds.
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There was plenty of other bird activity at the ponds, even in the middle
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of the day. A pair of Pygmy Nuthatches is nesting in a new snag, now that
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the old one has fallen down. A Merlin flew over, and Yellow-rumped
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Warblers were absolutely everywhere. Later, on Hwy 97, we saw a group of
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12 disconsolate-looking Turkey Vultures in the trees, waiting out the
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rain. But Turkey Vultures always look disconsolate, don't they?
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Rachel Lawson
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Seattle
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rwlawson at q.com
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