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Showing posts with label Purple Finch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Purple Finch. Show all posts
April 9, 2012
July 31, 2011
Healed
Mornings like this are always encouraging when it comes to the subject of bird injuries. Occasionally birds can get injured during the banding process, sometimes resulting in something like a broken leg. While this is very rare, it is something we think about a lot, doing everything we can to prevent. In the case of a broken leg we treat the injury to the best of our abilities and release the bird back into the wild. It may seem far fetched to assume a one legged bird can survive in the wild, but it does happen and we have recaptured birds with fully healed legs that had once been broken while banding or in the wild.
Today, our first bird was a hermit thrush (second of the summer!). Though it had never been banded before, you can tell in the picture below that this bird's right leg had once been broken, but was is now completely healed, and strong as ever (well, almost). I did however band it on it's left leg, as the crook in it's right may have caused some complications with the band moving freely.
Just now we caught his purple finch! This is a fully healed injury where the bird is missing all of it's leg below it's tarsal joint (essentially below the knee). Not only was this bird doing fine, but it had a brood patch, indicating that it was a breeding female.
Today, our first bird was a hermit thrush (second of the summer!). Though it had never been banded before, you can tell in the picture below that this bird's right leg had once been broken, but was is now completely healed, and strong as ever (well, almost). I did however band it on it's left leg, as the crook in it's right may have caused some complications with the band moving freely.
Just now we caught his purple finch! This is a fully healed injury where the bird is missing all of it's leg below it's tarsal joint (essentially below the knee). Not only was this bird doing fine, but it had a brood patch, indicating that it was a breeding female.
June 23, 2011
New camera comes tomorrow, they say.
Finally got a chance to take a hike around some of the favored trails around the area, in the "water district."
Bad picture of yesterday's great egret rookery visit. About 60 pairs I think, nesting in a redwood. Got to see eggs, fresh nestlings, and some awkward tweeners.
Juvenile purple finch caught today at Redwood Creek
Brown creeper
Bad picture of yesterday's great egret rookery visit. About 60 pairs I think, nesting in a redwood. Got to see eggs, fresh nestlings, and some awkward tweeners.
Juvenile purple finch caught today at Redwood Creek
Brown creeper
May 4, 2011
November 12, 2010
Boredom Trapping
I did see another hawk!
I also did some more chickadee catching. I've caught six of them with different bands. At some point I'll look them up and see where they're from (probably here).
This one had a couple of white feathers growing on its head. Freak.
Hairy woodpecker.
Long inner tail feathers to support its body against trees as it hammers away.
Also, a (notsopurple) purple finch
I also did some more chickadee catching. I've caught six of them with different bands. At some point I'll look them up and see where they're from (probably here).
This one had a couple of white feathers growing on its head. Freak.
Hairy woodpecker.
Long inner tail feathers to support its body against trees as it hammers away.
Also, a (notsopurple) purple finch
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