[va-bird] Smith I., MD/VA Pelican/terns July 18
- From: "Harry Armistead" <harryarmistead@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 19:33:52 +0000
Virginians, Another and last archival posting of some earlier banding
exploits. Hoping this will transmit in a halfway decent format. If not,
back to the drawing boards. Apologia pro vita sua but nevertheless best to
all-Harry Armistead.
From: Henry Armistead <74077.3176@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >To: Harry Armistead
Subject: Pelican &tern banding >Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:07:10 -0400
July18, 2002, Thursday, I joined banders Dave Brinker and John Weske and 9
young women (one of them from Germany) who are variously biologists,
refuge/park interns, etc., for a boat trip from Crisfield to the huge Brown
Pelican colony at South Point Marsh, which is essentially an extension of
Smith Island, MD, even though it lies a couple of miles south of the MD/VA
line. About 1,000 pairs nest here. >>Today we banded 550 chicks. Earlier
this year Dave, John et al. banded c. >425 chicks here. I saw 4 American
Oystercatchers, incl. one that was a >juvenile (told by its darkish bill).
Dave and others have also banded c. >235 pelican chicks farther up the
Chesapeake at Spring Island, Dorchester >County, where there are about 260
nests. Also in Dorchester, on a small >marshy tump just south of Barren
Island these folks have found occupied >pelican nests for the first time,
some 51, and have banded 11 chicks so >far. So counting the 1,000 nests at
Fisherman's Island N.W.R., VA, that >makes well over 2,300 Brown Pelican
nests for the greater Chesapeake Bay >area with c. 1,300 young banded.
Pelicans are not banded on Fisherman's. >>Also today we saw a Caspian Tern
near Ewell, in the MD part of Smith >Island. John banded a few
Double-crestedCormorant chicks today out of the >scores present at South
Marsh Point. DCCO also nest on Spring and Barren >islands as well. We had
theusual celebratory crabcake sandwich lunch at >Ruke's in Ewell on Smith
Island, where I saw 6 Yellow-crowned Night Herons. >>Other tern news.
Earlierin July John Weske et al. banded 1,600 Royal and >6 Sandwich Terns on
Fisherman's Island. John and his crew also banded 897 >Royal Tern chicks on
Fox Island, just south of Crisfield, but in Virginia, >on July 2. >>In the
Oregon Inlet area, North Carolina, (between Bodie and Hatteras >islands)
JohnWeske and about 30 helpers banded 1,550 Brown Pelican chicks >in one day
this summer, the most ever in one day. This species has a >recovery rate of
c. 10%, I believe, so there has got to be a lot of data >accumulating from
all those recoveries. >>Best to all.-Harry Armistead, 523 E. Durham St.,
Philadelphia, PA >19119-1225. 215-248-4120. Please, any off-list replies to:
harryarmistead@xxxxxxxxxxx
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