McGILL BIRD OBSERVATORY

WINTER POPULATION MONITORING

Weeks 10-13:  January 2008

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PICTURE OF THE MONTH:



Winter at MBO - a view south over frozen Stoneycroft Pond, from a vantage point
beyond the C nets (
Photo by Marcel Gahbauer)
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THIS MONTH

THIS WINTER

2008 TOTAL

SITE TOTAL

# birds (and species) banded

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12978 (103)

# birds (and species) repeat

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2226 (59)

# birds (and species) return

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331 (29)

# species observed

13

39

13

191

# net hours

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21945.8

# birds banded / 100 net hours

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59.1

Note: table does not include nocturnal banding (owls)

Banders-in-charge: Marie-Anne Hudson
Censusers:  Natalia Castellanos, Amélie Constantineau, Shawn Craik, Kathleen Earl, Barbara Frei, Demetrios Kobiliris, Barbara and Don MacDuff, Sabrina Richard-Lalonde

Notes:   This January has been a mess weather-wise: warm, cold, snow, rain, ice pellets, sunshine, windy, calm.  This month has run the gamut of foul weather, reducing the number of nice census days.  We’re hoping that the foul weather will play itself out completely, leaving spring beautiful, warm, and perfect for banding!

New species for this winter include Common Raven and Cedar Waxwing.  In terms of new species for the year, well they’re all new!  We start 2008 with 13 species, including: Red-tailed Hawk, Downy and Hairy Woodpecker, Blue Jay, American Crow, Common Raven, Black-capped Chickadee, White-breasted Nuthatch, American Robin, Cedar Waxwing, European Starling, Northern Cardinal and American Goldfinch.

We’ve put up a few feeders near the gate (in the clearing just up the hill) since the McGill Ethology class had a good amount of leftover seed from a behavioural lab they were conducting.  We thank them for their generosity, as do the birds.  Please feel free to go have a look to see what’s there, and let us know if the seed level is getting low – we’re hoping to have enough to get through the winter.

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