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Week 7: December 12-18, 2005 |
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PICTURE
OF THE WEEK: |
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The Common Redpolls have begun to increase in numbers. This
after-hatch-year male was remarkably tame, continuing to
feed from the nyjer tube even when there was human activity
only a few metres away. (Photo by Marcel Gahbauer)
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Special thanks to Wildlifers in Baie D'Urfe for
donating the seed to stock the feeders for MBO's
Winter Monitoring Program -
click here
for information about the store. |
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THIS WEEK |
THIS WINTER |
2005 TOTAL |
SITE TOTAL |
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# birds (and species) banded |
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173 (11) |
4132
(84) |
5053
(92) |
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# birds (and species) repeat |
-- |
98
(5) |
839
(36) |
893
(41) |
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# birds (and species) return |
-- |
6
(2) |
78
(14) |
78
(14) |
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# species observed |
15 |
44 |
164 |
170 |
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# net hours |
-- |
66.5 |
5447.6 |
6422.1 |
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# birds banded / 100 net hours |
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260.2 |
75.8 |
78.6 |
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Note: table does not include nocturnal banding (owls) |
Bander-in-charge:
Marcel Gahbauer
Assistants: Shawn Craik
Notes:
No
banding this week, due to weather in combination with busy schedules in
advance of the holidays. The highlights of the week were our first
Red-breasted Nuthatch sighting of the winter, and increasing numbers of
Common Redpolls, with as many as 6 by Thursday. On Friday, 41 cm of
snow fell, the highest single day accumulation in over 30 years. It
will be interesting to see whether this results in more birds
concentrating at the feeders.
