Ohio Bird Banding - Spring Migration 2009

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In the spring of 2008, I headed to the Buckeye State to band and bleed birds along the southern edge of Lake Erie in Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge. I worked as a Avian Technician for the Ohio State University (School of Environment and Natural Resources - Terrestrial Wildlife Ecology Lab). This was a part of graduate student, Lauren Mcdade's masters thesis research.

Lauren's research focused on the stopover ecology and refueling preformance of migrant landbirds. More specifically, she assessed the importance of aquatic insects (specifically midges) to migrant landbirds, and she did so across two habitat types, shoreline and inland. To do this, she used stable carbon isotopes (breath samples), and plasma-lipid metabolites (blood samples) to infer recent dietary choices and assess refueling preformance respectively. What this meant for me, was that I had to target net her focal species (Myrtle's Warblers, Magnollia Warblers, and White-throated Sparrows), obtain breath samples and blood samples, as well as all other standard banding data. I was also required to obtain insect samples near the net lanes.

Not all sites or all days were busy, so I was able to band a lot of non-focal species as well. In all, I banded 290 landbirds.

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Fox Sparrow - FOSP Fox Sparrow - FOSP	Frowny Face - Golden-crowned Kinglet - GCKI Frowny Face - Golden-crowned Kinglet - GCKI	Northern Cardinal - Finger Munchin' Northern Cardinal - Finger Munchin'	Northern Cardinal - Profile - NOCA Northern Cardinal - Profile - NOCA	Brown Creeper - Lookin' Creepy - BRCR Brown Creeper - Lookin' Creepy - BRCR
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - RCKI Ruby-crowned Kinglet - RCKI	Ottawa NWR Sunset Ottawa NWR Sunset	Immature Sharp-shinned Hawk - SSHA Immature Sharp-shinned Hawk - SSHA	Focal Species - White-throated Sparrow - WTSP Focal Species - White-throated Sparrow - WTSP	Lincoln's Sparrow - LISP Lincoln's Sparrow - LISP
Male Yellow-shafted Flicker - NOFL Male Yellow-shafted Flicker - NOFL	Focal Species - Myrtle's Warbler - MYWA Focal Species - Myrtle's Warbler - MYWA	Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - BGGN Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - BGGN	Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Dr. Evil Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Dr. Evil	Waterfowl Migration - Lake Erie Waterfowl Migration - Lake Erie
Tree Swallow - TRES Tree Swallow - TRES	TRES - Profile TRES - Profile	Collecting Isotope Samples - Birdie Breathalyzer Collecting Isotope Samples - Birdie Breathalyzer	Midge = Bird Food Midge = Bird Food	Midge and Shadow Midge and Shadow
Nuclear Plant in front of Condo Nuclear Plant in front of Condo	Rusty Blackbird - RUBL Rusty Blackbird - RUBL	RUBL - Feet RUBL - Feet	Northern Flicker - Intergrade Northern Flicker - Intergrade	Winter Wren - WIWR Winter Wren - WIWR
Angry Yellow Warbler - YWAR Angry Yellow Warbler - YWAR	ASY - Yellow Warbler Flight Feathers ASY - Yellow Warbler Flight Feathers	Eastern Phoebe - EAPH Eastern Phoebe - EAPH	Female Myrtle's Warbler Female Myrtle's Warbler	Orange-crowned Warbler - OCWA Orange-crowned Warbler - OCWA
Lamb's Woods Net-lane Lamb's Woods Net-lane	ASY - COYE ASY - COYE	Ottawa NWR Bullfrog Ottawa NWR Bullfrog	Cold - SY - Northern Parula - NOPA Cold - SY - Northern Parula - NOPA	SY - Northern Parula Fight Feathers SY - Northern Parula Fight Feathers
Western Palm Warbler - WPWA Western Palm Warbler - WPWA	Male Black-throated Green Warbler - BTNW Male Black-throated Green Warbler - BTNW	Black-throated Green Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler	Angry Veery Angry Veery	ASY (after second year) Male MYWA ASY (after second year) Male MYWA
ASY - Female MYWA ASY - Female MYWA	OCWA - Orange-crowned Warbler OCWA - Orange-crowned Warbler	Orange Crown - OCWA Orange Crown - OCWA	ASY - Male Magnolia Warbler - MAWA ASY - Male Magnolia Warbler - MAWA	ASY - MAWA Flight Feathers ASY - MAWA Flight Feathers
ASY - Male BTBW Flight Feathers ASY - Male BTBW Flight Feathers	ASY Male - Black-throated Blue Warbler ASY Male - Black-throated Blue Warbler	SY - Blue Jay - BLJA SY - Blue Jay - BLJA	BLJA flight Feathers BLJA flight Feathers	Chris With Blue Jay Chris With Blue Jay