BCCER Bird Banding 2006

BCCER Bird Banding Summary for 2006

Dawn Garcia

Table 1. 2006 Bird Banding Results (alphabetical list of species)

BBL	SPECIES	Number Banded
ACWO	Acorn Woodpecker	2
AMGO	American Goldfinch	2
AMRO	American Robin	11
ATFL	Ash-throated Flycatcher	5
AUWA	Audubon’s Warbler	5
BEWR	Bewick’s Wren	35
BHGR	Black-headed Grosbeak	17
BLPH	Black Phoebe	5
BTYW	Black-throated Gray Warbler	2
BUOR	Bullock’s Oriole	4
BUSH	Bushtit	36
CALT	California Towhee	12
COYE	Common Yellowthroat	1
DOWO	Downy Woodpecker	3
DUFL	Dusky Flycatcher	1
FOSP	Fox Sparrow	4
GCSP	Golden-crowned Sparrow	30
GWCS	Gambell’s White-crowned Sparrow	4
HETH	Hermit Thrush	104
HOFI	House Finch	6
HOWR	House Wren	1
HUVI	Hutton’s Vireo	5
LASP	Lark Sparrow	1
LAZB	Lazuli Bunting	9
LEGO	Lesser Goldfinch	57
LISP	Lincoln’s Sparrow	2
NASH	Nashville Warbler	1
NSWO	Northern Saw-whet Owl	65
NUWO	Nutall’s Woodpecker	2
OATI	Oak Titmouse	6
OCWA	Orange-crowned Warbler	21
ORJU	Oregon Junco	20
PSFL	Pacific-slope Flycatcher	1
PUFI	Purple Finch	9
RBNU	Red-breasted Nuthatch	1
RCKI	Ruby-crowned Kinglet	33
RSFL	Red-shafted Flicker	2
SOSP	Song sparrow	3
SPTO	Spotted Towhee	57
SWTH	Swainson’s Thrush	4
TOWA	Townsend’s Warbler	1
WBNU	White-breasted Nuthatch	2
WESO	Western Screech Owl	2
WESJ	Western Scrub Jay	3
WETA	Western Tanager	14
WIFL	Willow Flycatcher	5
WIWA	Winter Wren	1
WREN	Wrentit	2
WWPE	Western Wood Peewee	1
YBCH	Yellow-breasted Chat	5
YWAR	Yellow Warbler	19
52	TOTALS	644

2007 Birdbanding Summary

During the year of 2006, an awesome team of volunteers, including many Audubon members assisted with the bird banding stations at the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve (BCCER) and Butte Creek Ecological Preserve (BCEP). We captured a total of 644 individuals of 52 species (Table 1). These numbers do not include recaptures or unbanded birds such as Anna’s and Rufous Hummingbirds. For passerines, Hermit Thrushes were the species most captured (104) followed by Spotted Towhees and Lesser Goldfinches (57 each). We banded a whopping 65 Northern Saw-whet owls during the brief five week fall migration period. We had numerous recaptures of Hermit thrush, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Fox and Golden-crowned Sparrow returning to their wintering grounds at these sites, as well as resident breeding birds. Our most exciting recapture was the foreign recovery of an Orange-crowned warbler originally banded in 2002 in the eastern Sierra Nevada, putting him in his 5^th year of life!

Many additional species were tallied during our point count (counting individual birds at specific locations) efforts and these data will be provided in an upcoming issue of The White-tailed Kite.

Our goals of the migration stations are many and include collaboration with the Landbird Landbird Migration Monitoring Network (LaMMNA) of the Americas which is aimed at expanding the knowledge of migratory landbirds, determining population changes, migratory routes and stopover habitats. The Northern Saw-whet Owl Station in its second year (2006) has provided valuable information to the bigger owl monitoring program, Project OwlNet. We are also contributing to UC Davis to their study of the spread of Avian Influenza. On a local level we provide avian baseline and demographic data, offer educational opportunities, and have contributed to fundraising events for the Snow Goose Festival, BCCER, Sierra Club, and Altacal Audubon Society.

I look forward to seeing you at the banding stations in 2007! Write to me at mel.dawn@sbcglobal.net to receive 2007 banding dates and results.

Dawn Garcia/Conservation Chair

Websites mentioned in article

LaMMNA, seehttp://www.klamathbird.org/lamna/

Project OwlNet, see http://www.projectowlnet.org/