Date:         Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:11:46 -0800
Reply-To:     Charlie <cmmbirds@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Georgia Birders Online <GABO-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Charlie <cmmbirds@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      great day at Joe Kurz
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Hi folks,

It was a great day to be at Joe Kurz WMA in Meriwether County.  The burned over field is attracting hundreds of birds to the cornucopia of exposed seeds and invertebrates.  We had to close early when I ran out of the most popular band size!  We banded 63 birds and recaptured another 14, for 77 birds handled.  Best bird of the day was the Common Ground-dove.

Joe Kurz WMA is a Georgia Important Bird Area (IBA).  For more information on IBAs please see:
http://www.atlantaaudubon.org/iba.htm

Funding for this banding station is assisted by a grant from Georgia Ornithological Society.  An additional GOS grant is helping to restore native plants to the area.

Cheers,
Charlie Muise
Georgia IBA Coordinator
http://www.atlantaaudubon.org/iba/

Location:     Joe Kurz WMA
Observation date:     2/9/09
Number of species:     34

Canada Goose     10
Wood Duck     2
Wild Turkey     4     heard only.  Could have been many more.
Black Vulture     1
Turkey Vulture     13
Cooper's Hawk     1
Red-shouldered Hawk     1
Red-tailed Hawk     2
Mourning Dove     4
Common Ground-Dove     1     banded
Barred Owl     1
Red-bellied Woodpecker     1
Downy Woodpecker     1
Northern Flicker     1
Pileated Woodpecker     1
Blue Jay     1
American Crow     8
Carolina Chickadee     1
Brown-headed Nuthatch     4
Carolina Wren     2     re-captured 2 which were previously banded
Eastern Bluebird     6
American Robin     35     a single flock over head early in the day
Pine Warbler     8
Eastern Towhee     3
Chipping Sparrow     300     they LOVE the burned area.  It was amazing to see them in flocks of 100-200 at a time.  Banded 35 and re-captured one from a previous day.
Field Sparrow     40     banded 16 and recaptured 11 from previous days.
Savannah Sparrow     10     banded 3
Song Sparrow     30     banded 4 and recaptured 2 from previous days
White-throated Sparrow     10     banded 2
Northern Cardinal     4     banded 2
Red-winged Blackbird     10
Eastern Meadowlark     3
Brown-headed Cowbird     1
American Goldfinch     2

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

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