FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Bird banding at Seven Islands tomorrow

[jgiocomo@xxxxxxx]

Tomorrow (July 9) we will be running our MAPS (Monitoring Avian 
Productivity and Survival) station at Seven Islands in Knox County. We 
will set up a half an hour before sunrise at the second to the last 
barn along the paved road (Kelly Lane) this Sunday.  Nets will close 
around 11:30am depending upon the temperature. If it rains, we will 
reschedule. We have been catching about 40-50 birds each morning we are 
out. Anyone who is interested in seeing the bird banding process is 
invited.  You do not have to show up at sunrise or stay the whole time. 
 Bring lots of water.

Just in case you don't know, MAPS (Monitoring Avian Productivity and 
Survival) is a national protocol for monitoring birds. We use a set of 
ten mist nets in a contiguous patch of habitat. It was designed for 
forest birds, but we have one of the few set up in a grassland setting. 
Because we are in a grassland setting we have one of the highest 
capture rates of any of the MAPS stations. If you want the to see birds 
like Indigo Buntings, Yellow-breasted Chats, and Field Sparrows up 
close and have a chance to see maybe a Grasshopper Sparrow or a 
Prothonotary Warbler, this is the station to visit. This project is 
conducted in cooperation with the Seven Islands Foundation, The 
Knoxville Chapter of the TOS, THe Knoxville Zoo, and The Department of 
Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries at the University of Tennesseen and 
was originally funded by a TOS Conservation and Research Grant.

Information and directions to Seven Islands are available on the TOS 
website (http://www.tnbirds.org/birdfinding/SevenIslands.htm).

Yesterday I had 27 Wood Ducks at the new wetland area, and I had a 
Black-and-white Warbler along the river.

 --Jim Giocomo


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