McGILL BIRD OBSERVATORY

WINTER POPULATION MONITORING

Week 10:  Mar 7 - Mar 13, 2005

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PICTURE OF THE WEEK:


Another view of the local Great Gray Owl.  (Photo by Marcel Gahbauer)

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  THIS WEEK WINTER TOTAL YEAR TOTAL SITE TOTAL
# birds (and species) banded -- 226 (13) 32 (8) 950 (48)
# birds (and species) repeat -- 98 (9) 23 (2) 201 (17)
# birds (and species) return -- 4 (3) 4 (3) 6 (4)
# species observed 12 32 22 138
# net hours -- 83.0 31.0 1005.5
# birds banded / net hour -- 271.1 103.2 94.4

Note: table does not include nocturnal banding (owls)

Bander-in-charge:  Marcel Gahbauer
Banding assistants:  Shawn Craik

Notes:  An unusually cold, windy, and snowy second week of March kept us from banding.  However, most of the regular species were seen during trips to fill the feeders.  Of interest, one of the American Tree Sparrows was observed perching on the nyjer seed feeder, rather than just foraging on the snow below as usual.  We also learned this week from a reliable observer that the local Great Gray Owl has in fact been seen as far back as the end of January, sometimes even perched on top of our net poles, or out in the open on the martin condominium!

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