[va-bird] CVWO initiates spring banding program at First Landing State Park

Beginning March 1, 2005 Coastal Virginia Wildlife Observatory will begin a 
spring songbird banding program at First Landing State Park that will continue 
through the end of May.  CVWO has overseen spring banding programs in past 
years from 1999 to 2002 at Eastern Shore of Virginia NWR.  The new banding 
station is located near the intersection of Long Creek and White Lake trails.  
The banding program will examine the use of that area by migrants and breeding 
birds. From measurements taken from the banded birds the health, age range, and 
other parameters of the birds will be assessed.  Jethro Runco, the songbird 
bander at Kiptopeke State Park in the fall, will oversee the spring banding 
operation.  The station is about a mile and a half south of the visitor's 
center parking lot, an easy walk from the parking lot.  Make plans to visit 
Jethro at the station during the spring.
Robert L. Ake
6603 Catherine Street
Norfolk VA 23505
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