Summer Banding 1999
RRBO banded on 8 days in June and July, banding 65 new birds
and handling 15 recaps of 13 species. Excessive heat curtailed operations.
Here's the summary:
| Downy Woodpecker - 5 + 1 recap |
Recap was female from 1995. |
| Yellow-shafted Flicker -1 |
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| Red-eyed Vireo - 2 |
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| Black-capped Chickadee - 2 |
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| Tufted Titmouse - 1 |
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| Wood Thrush - 6 + 1 |
Five were locally hatched young. See Wood
Thrush Study |
| Gray Catbird - 36 + 11 |
Our bread and butter! |
| Yellow Warbler - 2 |
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| Song Sparrow - 3 |
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| Indigo Bunting - 1 |
A nesting female |
| Red-winged Blackbird - 2 |
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| Balitimore Oriole - 2 |
3 were HY |
| American Goldfinch - 1 + 2 |
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Rouge
River Bird Observatory
Natural Areas
Dept., University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI 48128