Palomarin Banding Summary – August & September

August and September were busy at the Palomarin Field Station – a new crew of interns, wildfires, fall migrants, and returning winter migrants. Read on to learn more!

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How ‘The Lookers’ Team Bird-A-Thons During a Pandemic

The Palomarin team, The Lookers, continues their tradition of dressing up in this year’s Bird-A-Thon, while extending their team – virtually – to all alumni given the need to not bird as a large group during a pandemic but to stay connected.

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Palomarin Evacuated during the Woodward Fire as a Precaution

As our hearts are with those impacted by the many fires in California right now, we also wanted to update you on how one that is burning close to the Palomarin Field Station has impacted us.

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Point Blue Conservation Science: Monthly Banding Summary, July 2020

July brought more birds, read more to find out what we caught!

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Point Blue Conservation Science: Monthly Banding Summary, June 2020

June is a time for fledglings! Read more about what happened at the Palomarin Field Station this month!

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Point Blue Conservation Science: Palomarin Field Station Spring Season Update – April & May, 2020

The breeding season is in full swing and the banding and gridding interns at the Palomarin Field Station have been busy! Read on to learn more about the birds they have been studying for the past couple of months.

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Point Blue Conservation Science: Monthly Banding Summary, March 2020

March marks the beginning of the bird breeding season here at Palomarin. New interns arrive to begin their internship, and some of our breeding neotropical migrants begin arriving as well!

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Point Blue Conservation Science: Monthly Banding Summary, February 2020

More evidence of the start of the breeding season this month! Spring is just around the corner! Read on to see our highlights from the month of February.

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Point Blue Conservation Science: Monthly Banding Summary, January 2020

A new year has come! Read on to see a recap of our bird captures in 2019 and to learn about what birds we have caught so far in 2020.

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Bluebirds!

Today at our Palomarin Field Station we caught an adult male Western Bluebird. That in itself is something to celebrate. They are gorgeous. But there is a special story behind this particular guy. We don’t catch adult Western Bluebirds very often at Palomarin, in fact this is only the tenth capture from the past 20

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