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Bird
Banding - Highlights by
date
(most recent
first!)
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2011
October |
White-crowned,
Golden-crowned and
White-throated Sparrows (AHY
and HY showing molt limits
and pseudolimits),
Orange-crowned Warbler (AHY
and HY showing molt limits
and tail shape), Audubon's
Warbler (HY female showing
molt limits and male/female
plumage characteristics),
Lincoln's Sparrow (HY
showing molt limits and
rectrices replacement),
Red-winged Blackbird (AHY
epaulettes), Leucistic
Common Yellowthroat, bright
Bewick's Wren and Purple
Finch, Purple Finch male
delayed plumage maturation,
Anna's Hummingbird molt,
bill deformities, TY Downy
Woodpecker, Northern Flicker
(SY male), Wilson's Snipe,
Western Wilderness Committee
and Barn Swallow video
production, BCIT field trip,
Ruby-crowned and
Golden-crowned Kinglets (AHY
males), Pine Siskin (AHY and
HY showing molt limits and
tail shape), Northern
Shrike, Sharp-shinned Hawk
(HY male), Varied Thrush (HY
male) |
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September |
Shaw TV, September Bird
Monitoring and Banding
Workshop, visiting British
Ringer Tim Ball,
Black-headed Grosbeaks –
photos of fat deposits,
MacGillivray’s and Nashville
Warblers (HY females),
Western Tanager (HY male),
Black-headed Grosbeak and
Eastern Kingbird in juvenile
plumages. Western Wood-Pewee
(HY), Pacific-slope and
Willow Flycatchers side by
side, Dusky Flycatcher,
Common Yellowthroat (AHY
female with receding BP and
worn flight feathers),
Savannah Sparrow (HY molt
limits), Warbling Vireo (P10
photo), Pacific Wren (HY). |
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August |
Molt and molt limits in the
making in Yellow Warbler,
Wilson's Warbler,
Orange-crowned Warbler,
Common Yellowthroat,
Lincoln's Sparrow, Purple
Finch and Swainson's Thrush.
White-crowned and Savannah
Sparrows in juvenal plumage,
WRA colour banded American
Robin, Cooper's Hawk,
Sharp-shinned Hawk and
nictitating membrane,
Confusing 'Traill's'
Flycatcher, HY Pacific-slope
Flycatcher, Gabriel Jamie
from Cambridge University. |
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July |
Yellow Warbler -
prealternate molt, Northern
Flicker molt, Downy
Woodpecker (hatch year male
and female), Hatch Year
birds and characteristics of
birds in juvenal plumage,
July visitors including
Catching the Spirit Youth
Group, Western Wilderness
Committee and Global TV film
crews, Eastern Kingbird (SY
female showing molt and
P10), Bewick's and Marsh
Wren, Lazuli Bunting (SY
male showing molt) |
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June |
Sexing monomorphic species
during the breeding season,
locally hatched and birds in
juvenal plumage, more
confusing Empids
(Willow/Alder Flycatcher),
Pacific-slope Flycatcher,
Western Wood-Pewee, photo
essay on Cowbirds, Cedar
Waxwings and Hummingbirds,
Evening Grosbeak, Northern
Harrier and Lazuli Bunting. |
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May |
Discussion on Hammond's vs.
Dusky Flycatchers, May
Banding Workshop,
Black-headed Grosbeak,
Western Tanager,
White-crowned Sparrow
(hindcrown), SY female
Cooper's Hawk, Hermit Thrush
(showing wing molt), Record
Day, spring migrants
including MacGillivray's and
Nashville Warblers, Western
Meadowlark, red-breasted
Nuthatch, UFV biology
students field trip. |
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April |
Frozen nets, Ruby-crowned
Kinglet, Mountain Bluebird,
Northern Shrike,
Sharp-shinned Hawk (SY
female), Yellow-rumped
Warblers (AUWA & MYWA), BCIT
students, Violet-green
Swallow, Savannah Sparrow,
Fox Sparrows (Sooty &
Slate-colored),
Golden-crowned Sparrow,
Lincoln's Sparrow, Hermit
Thrush |
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March |
CF site prep, Tree Swallows,
Bewick's Wren,
Chestnut-backed Chickadee,
Song Sparrow ageing, Song
Sparrow and Spotted Towhee
eye colour, American
Goldfinch, First Savannah
Sparrow |
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February |
Red-winged Blackbirds, early
spring migrants |
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January |
Black-capped Chickadee -
Photo essay |
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2010
October
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Colony Farm season totals,
New species banded 2010,
Other birds of interest.
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September |
September totals, Long-eared
Owl, Northern Waterthrush,
Hammond's Flycatcher,
Band-tailed Pigeon.
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August |
August totals, Traill's
Flycatcher molt, first
Northern Waterthrush banded,
House Wren
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June |
June totals, First Eastern
Kingbirds and Western
Tanagers of the season,
BREWER'S SPARROW banded,
Ash-throated Flycatcher,
Yellow-breasted Chat
sightings,
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April |
Spring migration begins with
the first big push of
Yellow-rumped Warblers
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March |
Preparation at Colony Farm
for spring migration banding
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