The Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary, McKinney, TX Bird Banding & Census Report Friday, April 5, 2013 Banding Team: Betty, Blaine, Craig, Denise, Etta Mae, Judy, Whitney and Tom Total species banded - 10 Total birds banded - 24 Eastern Phoebe - 1 American Goldfinch - 1 Harris's Sparrow - 1 White-crowned Sparrow - 2 White-throated Sparrow - 3 Field Sparrow - 2 Song Sparrow - 1 Lincoln's Sparrow - 9 Northern Cardinal - 2 Tufted Titmouse - 2 --------------------------- Total species recaptured - 3 Total birds recaptured - 10 Northern Cardinal - 5 (Banded 3/25/2005, 4 in 2012) Carolina Wren - 3 (Banded 6/25/2008, 11/11/2012, 8/29/2012) Tufted Titmouse - 2 (Banded 9/28/2011, 10/10/2012) --------------------------- Georgette's census Heard Nat. Sci. Mus.& Wildlife Sanct, Collin, US-TX Apr 5, 2013 8:05 AM - 11:35 AM Protocol: Traveling 2.0 miles 65 species Canada Goose 6 Wood Duck 9 Gadwall 3 Mallard 6 Blue-winged Teal 28 Northern Shoveler 1 Ring-necked Duck 5 Lesser Scaup 2 Hooded Merganser 2 Pied-billed Grebe 9 Neotropic Cormorant 2 Double-crested Cormorant 4 Great Blue Heron 9 Great Egret 16 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 5 Black Vulture 6 Turkey Vulture 4 Northern Harrier 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 2 Broad-winged Hawk 2 Swainson's Hawk 1 American Coot 11 Rock Pigeon 1 Mourning Dove 7 Greater Roadrunner 1 Chimney Swift 1 Black-chinned Hummingbird 1 Red-headed Woodpecker 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Downy Woodpecker 7 Northern Flicker 1 Eastern Phoebe 3 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 5 White-eyed Vireo 9 Blue Jay 3 American Crow 2 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1 Purple Martin 12 Bank Swallow 2 Carolina Chickadee 6 Tufted Titmouse 5 Carolina Wren 6 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 7 Eastern Bluebird 5 Northern Mockingbird 6 Orange-crowned Warbler 2 Northern Parula 2 Yellow-rumped Warbler 11 Spotted Towhee 2 Field Sparrow 4 Fox Sparrow 1 This bird was the red subspecies of the Fox Sparrow. It was traveling with a mixed group of sparrows in the underbrush. Like Fox Sparrows we have in the winter, it had very heavy streaking on the breast, gray head and rufous colored wings. I saw it for 5 seconds at the most. Song Sparrow 1 Lincoln's Sparrow 7 White-throated Sparrow 10 Harris's Sparrow 10 White-crowned Sparrow 2 Dark-eyed Junco 3 Northern Cardinal 45 Red-winged Blackbird 59 Common Grackle 4 Great-tailed Grackle 5 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 Pine Siskin 2 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S13642519 ------------------------------------- Tom Heath, Plano Edit your Freelists account settings for TEXBIRDS at //www.freelists.org/list/texbirds Reposting of traffic from TEXBIRDS is prohibited without seeking permission from the List Owner