Posts tagged ‘white-throated sparrow’
More Birds, Close-Up
The bird-banding sessions that grad student Emily Thomas ’07a, ’09 had been running since the end of August officially ended a month ago, but earlier this week she sent around an e-mail saying that since the weather has been so nice, she’d be setting up the bird nets one more time this morning. The idea was to give interested undergrads in the wildlife and fisheries science major some more experience in capturing, banding, and collecting data on birds—and also to see what species might turn up at this late stage of the migration season.
So I went over with my camera to the banding location at the Arboretum at about 7 this morning and hung out for a couple of hours. It was very cold for the first hour or so: One of the students had a cell phone with a thermometer on it, and it read 20.7 degrees at one point. (more…)
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