Our first banding session was held on October 19, 2012 using only 4 nets. Our first birds were two Black-throated Blue Warblers. One was an adult male and the other was a hatch-year male bird. Hatch year means it was born in the recent nesting season. It is making its first migration to wintering grounds. If we recapture these birds at a later date, we will know that they are over-wintering at Possum Long. If they do not remain, we can only hope another station captures them and we will know where they have gone.
Hatch-year Black-throated Blue Warbler
You can see the white feathers on the throat of this bird. An adult male's throat would be entirely black.
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