On Sunday, May 26th 2013 at 7:30 am Grace joined several other young
Naturalists joined Janos Kovacs a veteran bird bander for a morning of
Identification, a great explanation of what bird banding is, and sharing
of a life time of bird watching.
 |
| The prize catch a Yellow Bellied Sap Sucker |
Bird ringing or bird banding is a technique used in the study of wild birds, by attaching a small, individually numbered, metal or plastic tag to their legs or wings, so that various aspects of the bird's life can be studied by the measurements taken during the capture, such as molt, fat content, age, sex, wing and tail. An added bonus is the occasional ability to re-find the same individual later. This recapture or recovery of the bird can provide information that includes migration, longevity, mortality, population studies, territoriality, feeding behaviour, and other aspects that are studied by ornithologists
Strathcona Science Provincial Park is a provincial park in Edmonton, Alberta. It was established on December 12, 1979.
 |
| A Yellow Warbler caught in the nets |
This site was for thousands of years the site of an annual aboriginal
camp, as it was located close enough to the river for transportation
and trade and the bluffs of the river valley provided excellent
bison-hunting opportunities. The park was established to preserve the
site from encroaching industrial development. It was the site of
archeological excavations in 1978 to 1980.
 |
| Clay Coloured Sparrow |
The park contains several abandoned interpertive buildings opened by the Alberta government in 1980 but now shuttered. Remnants of
the park's history as a public science center include tiled triangular obelisks, a boardwalk through the archaeological area, and a few interpretive plaques. The area is safe but overgrown.
 |
| Yellow Warbler already banded the previous year by the same group |
No comments:
Post a Comment