Photos © Bruce Parker 

 

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SPRING BANDING OPERATIONS 2011

 

Spring Long Term Volunteer - Phil Wilson

PEPtBO has a number of visiting banders over the course of the spring and fall seasons who come for training with bander-in-charge David Okines, a NABC (North American Banding Council) certified Trainer. This spring PEPtBO welcomed Phil Wilson.

Philip Wilson was born and raised in the city of Toronto, where he quickly learned that he was not meant to live in an urban environment. Phil attended Sir Sandford Fleming College and graduated in 2005 from the Fish and Wildlife Technology program. He then transferred to Trent University on a scholarship and graduated in 2007 with an honours degree in Wildlife Biology. His main focus has been and remains to be wildlife management. Since that time, Philip has worked in various places including Cuba, the Albertan Rocky Mountains , northern, central and southern Ontario, Jordan, and most recently finished working a two year contract with Environment Canada in the Protected Areas Program. Philip is currently embarking on another academic journey as he prepares for a Masters of Science in Biology at the University of Western Ontario. His focus is on the movement patterns and habitat selection of an arctic breeding species, the Long-tailed Duck, while found wintering at Lake Ontario. This past winter, Philip and a team of researchers captured LTDU on Lake Ontario and implanted adult birds with satellite transmitters. This information will be used to overlay LTDU locational information with planned development sites for offshore industrial wind turbines.

 

 

Banding Highlights

 

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Blue-gray Gnatcatchers Photo© Phil Wilson.

 

Banding operations closed for the season on May 31, 2011.

Wet and windy weather conditions slowed the start of migration but none-the-less new record banding totals were established for:

 

EASTERN KINGBIRD, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, BROWN CREEPER, TENNESSEE WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER, BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER, EASTERN WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW, SLATE-COLORED JUNCO and COMMON GRACKLE.

 

 

 

 

 

Several species tied previous highest spring banding totals including:

 

WOOD DUCK, RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD, YELLOW-THROATED VIREO, SAVANNAH SPARROW AND RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD

 

Yellow-throated Vireo. Photo© Bruce Parker.

 

In addition, NORTHERN SHRIKE was a new SPRING banding record for the Observatory.

 

Northern Shrike Photo© David Okines.

 

 

 

 

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Final Spring Banding Statistics 2009

 

 

Species	Spring Total 2009
Canada Goose	2
Wood Duck	1‡
Sharp-shinned Hawk	5
Killdeer	5‡
American Woodcock	3‡
Mourning Dove	71♠
Black-billed Cuckoo	3
Ruby-throated Hummingbird	11
Red-bellied Woodpecker	1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	7
Downy Woodpecker	2
Hairy Woodpecker	1
Yellow-shafted Flicker	13
Flicker Intergrade	1
Eastern Wood-Pewee	9
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher	37
Traill's Flycatcher	41
Least Flycatcher	26
Eastern Phoebe	7
Great Crested Flycatcher	2
Eastern Kingbird	2
Blue-headed Vireo	9
Warbling Vireo	4
Philadelphia Vireo	15
Red-eyed Vireo	48
Blue Jay	218
Tree Swallow	20
Cliff Swallow	26♠
Barn Swallow	2
Black-capped Chickadee	12
Eastern Tufted Titmouse	1‡
Red-breasted Nuthatch	1
White-breasted Nuthatch	1
Brown Creeper	141♠
House Wren	26
Winter Wren	10
Golden-crowned Kinglet	319♠
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	351
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	4
Veery	23
Gray-cheeked Thrush	29
Swainson's Thrush	86
Hermit Thrush	118♠
Wood Thrush	13
American Robin	86
Gray Catbird	121
Brown Thrasher	15
European Starling	35♠
Cedar Waxwing	656♠
Blue-winged Warbler	2
Brewster's Warbler	1
Golden-winged Warbler	2
Tennessee Warbler	18
Orange-crowned Warbler	3
Nashville Warbler	120
Northern Parula	8
Yellow Warbler	256
Chestnut-sided Warbler	62
Magnolia Warbler	272
Cape May Warbler	13
Black-throated Blue Warbler	30
Myrtle Warbler	660
Black-throated Green Warbler	45
Blackburnian Warbler	25
Pine Warbler	8♠
Western Palm Warbler	44
Bay-breasted Warbler	12
Blackpoll Warbler	23
Cerulean Warbler	1‡
Black-and-White Warbler	25
American Redstart	81
Ovenbird	23
Northern Waterthrush	20
Mourning Warbler	13
Common Yellowthroat	65
Hooded Warbler	3
Wilson's Warbler	45
Canada Warbler	30♠
Yellow-breasted Chat	1
Scarlet Tanager	3
Eastern Towhee	5
American Tree Sparrow	6
Chipping Sparrow	32
Field Sparrow	9
Vesper Sparrow	1‡
Savannah Sparrow	2
Fox Sparrow	10
Song Sparrow	60
Lincoln’s Sparrow	29
Swamp Sparrow	30
White-throated Sparrow	221
Eastern White-crowned Sparrow	102
Slate-colored Junco	268
Northern Cardinal	7
Rose-breasted Grosbeak	36
Indigo Bunting	2
Bobolink	8♠
Red-winged Blackbird	58♠
Eastern Meadowlark	1
Rusty Blackbird	5‡
Common Grackle	70
Brown-headed Cowbird	262
Orchard Oriole	1
Baltimore Oriole	37
Purple Finch	90
House Finch	2
Pine Siskin	290♠
American Goldfinch	224
House Sparrow	1

 

*First time species has been banded this Spring.

‡ Matches previous Spring's highest total for Species..

♠ New highest Spring total for Species.

♦ New Species Record for the Observatory.

 

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