{"id":1377,"date":"2014-06-09T02:51:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T02:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2015-03-15T03:35:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T03:35:58","slug":"pibo-migration-summary-may-16-june-1-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/pibo-migration-summary-may-16-june-1-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"PIBO Migration Summary (May 16 &#8211; June 1, 2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1378\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1378\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1378\" title=\"Hooded Warbler, by Sachiko Schott\" src=\"http:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/hood-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Hooded Warbler, by Sachiko Schott\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hooded Warbler, by Sachiko Schott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>May 16<sup>th<\/sup> was PIBO\u2019s busiest day this season, with 95 birds banded of 20 species. The banding totals showed a definite influx of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chestnut-Sided Warblers<\/span> (18 banded) and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Northern Parulas<\/span> (7 banded, which is equal to PIBO\u2019s previous highest total of Northern Parulas banded in an entire year). Since then, though, the number of birds banded has steadily declined as we approach the end of the spring migration.<\/p>\n<p>An <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Eastern Kingbird<\/span> was banded on May 19<sup>th<\/sup>, an unusual capture as this flycatcher species prefers open spaces and usually stays up above the dogwoods in the netting area, out of reach of the mist nets. This was only the second kingbird ever banded at PIBO.<\/p>\n<p>A warm front moved through on May 21<sup>st<\/sup>, heralded by a short-lived but torrential thunderstorm that drenched PIBO\u2019s field workers. Nets were opened for only half an hour before being closed due to rain with no birds banded, but a large snapping turtle was seen wallowing about in the muddy net lanes. It seemed to be enjoying the rain a lot more than the field workers were.<\/p>\n<p>The first <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mourning Warbler<\/span> of the season was banded on May 22<sup>nd<\/sup>. These warblers are one of the last migrants to move through the island in the spring, and herald the end of the migration season. While on census, Sumiko took pictures of some warblers hopping in and out of the bushes along the edge of the beach and afterwards, while viewing the photos, realized one of them had been a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Connecticut Warbler<\/span>, the only one observed this season.<\/p>\n<p>A <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Blackburnian Warbler<\/span>, two <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wilson\u2019s Warblers<\/span>, two <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Canada Warblers<\/span>, five <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">American Redstarts<\/span> and two <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ovenbirds<\/span> were all banded on the 25<sup>th<\/sup>, but since then warbler diversity has been steadily declining. Two <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Northern Waterthrushes<\/span> were also banded, unusually late. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Magnolia Warblers<\/span> were captured on the 29<sup>th<\/sup>, 30<sup>th<\/sup> and 31<sup>st<\/sup>. A male <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hooded Warbler<\/span> (seen above) was banded on May 31<sup>st<\/sup> &#8211; a very attractive bird, even though it turned out to be infested with bird lice (which tickle, but are not harmful to birds that are in good health). Small numbers of warblers are still being sighted on census (mostly Ovenbirds and American Redstarts), but in general, the spring migration is mostly over.<\/p>\n<p>June 1<sup>st<\/sup> was the final day of banding for the spring season. Five birds were banded of five species, all of them local nesters: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Yellow Warbler<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Grey Catbird<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Downy Woodpecker<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Common Grackle<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Red-Winged Blackbird<\/span>. The Downy Woodpecker expressed his dissatisfaction with being banded over the front of the bander\u2019s last clean shirt, ending spring banding with a flourish. Census will continue for a few days longer, and then PIBO will move on to conducting breeding bird and marsh bird surveys. Migration monitoring will resume in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 16th was PIBO\u2019s busiest day this season, with 95 birds banded of 20 species. The banding totals showed a definite influx of Chestnut-Sided Warblers (18 banded) and Northern Parulas (7 banded, which is equal to PIBO\u2019s previous highest total of Northern Parulas banded in an entire year). Since then, though, the number of birds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[34,31,77,41,130,40,53,48,129,63,133],"class_list":["post-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pibo-update","tag-banding","tag-birds","tag-connecticut-warbler","tag-essex-county","tag-hooded-warbler","tag-pelee-island","tag-pelee-island-bird-observatory","tag-pibo","tag-spring-migration","tag-warblers","tag-wilsons-warbler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}