Expanding BSBO's Hummingbird Banding Skills

8/14/2017

Blink and you'll miss it! Ryan Jacob, one of BSBO's research staff, measures a hummingbird band. Get in close enough and you can read the unique number printed on each band, helping to give each hummingbird we band its own identity.

Ryan and BSBO's Banding Projects Manager, Ashli Gorbet, depart tomorrow morning for hummingbird banding training in Texas, where they'll expand their knowledge of all the VERY fine details of handling, aging, sexing, and banding these tiny miracles.

If you wish to lend your support to help cover the costs of travel and training, we would greatly appreciate your help. Just click here http://www.bsbo.org/donate.html and donate through our secure website.

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ABOUT THE
NAVARRE MARSH BANDING STATION

The Observatory's primary banding station is located in Navarre Marsh behind the Davis Besse Nuclear Power Station on Toledo Edison property. Migration monitoring consists of constant effort mist netting and migration point counts (5 minute counts at 6 locations at the research site).

Habitat is remnant beach ridge consisting of canopy trees of Hackberry, Kentucky Coffeetree, and Cottonwood with tremendous under story of rough-leaved Dogwood on the sand ridges. This is similar to the vegetation found on the well-known beach ridge of the Magee Marsh Bird Wildlife Area where the world-famous boardwalk is situated.

Two other remnant beach ridge habitats in Northwest Ohio are the Darby unit of the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge and the Cedar Point National Wildlife Refuge. The Navarre beach ridge is the largest of them all occupying about 370 acres of wetland and beach ridge habitat.

The Navarre Marsh Migration Monitoring Station is on private property and not open to the public; however, we are able to give access to research students when special arrangements are made in advance.

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