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Palomarin Tags: bird banding
Palomarin Monthly Banding Summary: December 2020
December brought a bit of rain, fewer bird captures, and slower days as we settled into winter at the field station. However, there were still some exciting encounters! Read on to learn more.
Palomarin Monthly Banding Summary: November 2020
November was full of birds, including several different hawks! Read on to learn more about some of the fun species we caught in November.
Palomarin Monthly Banding Summary: October 2020
October brought more fall migrants and returning winter residents. Read on to see some of the highlights of October!
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!
Point Blue Conservation Science: Monthly Banding Summary, July 2020
July brought more birds, read more to find out what we caught!
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!
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!
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.
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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