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[Charlie <cmmbirds@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

This year, with the help of many good folks, Jim Giocomo, Mark
Armstrong and I banded birds at Seven Islands Wildlife Refuge (SIWR).

We had 10 nets opened for parts of just 8 days as part of a
continent-wide protocol called Monitoring Avian Productivity and
Survivorship (MAPS for short).

This breeding-season project is designed to help determine how many
birds breed in an area, how successful they are, and what their nest
site fidelity is (do they come back every year?)  Traditionally, MAPS
stations capture far fewer birds than migration stations.  However
this site is so rich in birds that it compares with many migration
sites.  Hopefully this will translate, in coming years, to many
recaptured birds, since those are the ones from which we learn the
most.

Thanks to efforts of the Seven Islands Foundation and particularly
the site manager Wayne Shacher, native plants are being restored and
this  should mean good news for birds in the coming years.  We hope
this MAPS station will be a tool for Wayne and folks to determine the
success of their efforts. 

We are already looking for help for next year.  The first banding day
will be between May 20 and May 30.  The nets are busy and opportunity
both to learn and to see uncommon/hard-to-see birds is high!

Numbers are below.

Charlie

Species             Banded Recaptured Unbanded
Orchard Oriole          13      5       0
Northern Cardinal       18      9       2
Common Yellowthroat     21      7       2
Indigo Bunting          64      10      8
Willow Flycatcher       3       5       0
"Traill's" Flycatcher   2       0       0 (probably willow)
Yellow-breasted Chat    18      6       0
Song Sparrow            53      13      4
Grasshopper Sparrow     4       1       2
Eastern Towhee          3       1       2
Brown Thrasher          7       2       0
Eastern Phoebe          23      2       0
Carolina Wren           13      5       3
Red-winged Blackbird    23      1       0
Northern Mockingbird    9       1       0
Field Sparrow           33      3       1
American Goldfinch      26      1       3
European Starling       0       0       3
Northern Bobwhite       0       0       2
Ruby-throated Hummingbi 0       0       2
Cedar Waxwing           1       0       1
American Woodcock       0       0       1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher   2       0       0
Carolina Chickadee      1       0       0
N. Rough-winged Swallow 3       0       0
Prothonotary Warbler    1       0       0
House Finch             19      0       0
Louisiana Waterthrush   1       0       0
Brown-headed Cowbird    18      0       0
Blue Grosbeak           2       0       0
Eastern Kingbird        3       0       0
Downy Woodpecker        1       0       0
Scarlet Tanager         1       0       0
Common Grackle          1       0       0
                        
Totals                 387      72      36
total birds handled                     495



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Charlie Muise, Naturalist in
Great Smoky Mountains National Park

"To the dull mind all nature is leaden.  To the illuminated mind 
the whole world sparkles with light."  - Ralph Waldo Emerson


                
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