2009 Fall Bird Banding, Saint Joseph, Missouri (1 Viewer)

Jack and I began banding some birds about a week ago. We had not gotten very many birds until today. We band at Missouri Western State University here in Saint Joseph, Missouri.

Birds banded this morning:

GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER - 1 (We had never banded one of these before. They are fairly rare migrating through our area!)
Black-and-white Warbler - 1
Wilson's Warbler - 1
Least Flycatcher - 1
"Trail's" (Alder/Willow) Flycatcher - 1
Gray Catbird - 2
Northern Cardinal - 2

*netted but not banded, Ruby-throated Hummingbird. (We do not band hummingbirds.)

Your Golden-wing is a young bird, he's got green on this back... ghaw, I've seen too many Golden-wings banded

Three more birds we banded

Can you tell what these three are?

Not looking at my book for the fun of it, I think the first one is a Chestnut-sided, the second one a Mourning, the third one a young empid.

I wish I could band, I tried to get a banding internship but didn't get it. Most of them are unpayed and I can't live on that unfortunately.

1. Chestnut-sided Warbler
2. Mourning Warbler
3. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

70 Birds Banded This Morning, Saint Joseph, Missouri

Jack Hilsabeck, John Rushin, Karen Lyman and I banded birds this morning on the campus of Missouri Western State University from about 7:15 AM until noon. We successfully processed/banded 70 birds of fourteen (14) species. It was the highest number of birds in one morning's banding for all of us, including Jack who has been banding birds for about 40 years!

1. Nashville Warbler - 36
2. Orange-crowned Warbler - 16
3. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3
4. American Robin - 2
5. Northern Cardindal - 2
6. Blue-headed Vireo - 2
7. Lincoln's Sparrow - 2
8. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1
9. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1, hatching year (HY) male.
10.Gray Catbird - 1
11.Swainson's Thrush - 1
12.House Wren - 1
13.Black-capped Chickadee - 1
14.White-throated Sparrow - 1, * first of the season (FOS) for us

We plan on going back out to the university this afternoon to see if we can add to our total of birds banded today.

We did go back in the afternoon and banded 21 more birds. Almost all of them were Nashville and Orange-crowned Warblers!

Two of the birds we banded.

Here are three photos of a couple of the birds we banded. Photo 1 and 2 are the same bird. Photo three is the second bird.