Re: Banding Report: Sunday, March 4 - 82 captured (67 different individuals)!

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Nancy clarified-- Still quite an impressive total, given the low numbers reported at the feeders at any given time. It is not unusual for flock size to diminish towards the end of the season. This confirms that the absolute number may not decrease as much as we assumed. It will be interesting to "bracket" the departure of the birds, both the last flock and the last stragglers, so pleas fill out the sightings log. Ken

Hi Ken,

I just finished entering the repeats from yesterday and we handled 67 different individuals*.  We had a lot more same day repeats than we thought.  As I said before, they kept us busy and it was hard when we had several people recording for each one to check the other data sheets.   That is still more individuals than we thought because we know that there was at least one Gray-crowned that never got in our traps.

Nancy

*67 individuals not counting the Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch that was sighted but not captured.