December 4, 2016 - A milestone - 1000

Today was the day we banded the 1000th Painted Bunting in our research.  We revisited PB 61 as last visit it was windy and our hosts reported more unbanded birds.  Interesting to note that all the birds we banded (all green ones) were born last summer except Number 1000.

Painted Bunting #1000

We used a special combination on this bird using two of the split bands, the federal band (silver), and a dark blue one.  All other combinations only have one split band.  In our data entry, our split band is labeled K.  So our 100th bird (1K) got 2 K bands.  

The one incidental capture we had was a Gray Catbird.  

Remember - no banding at Possum Long on Tuesday (see previous post).