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Kelleys Island
Saw-whet Owl Banding Project

 Conducted by Tom Bartlett
 

November 2007
November Northern Saw-whet Owl banding
 
Collecting feather samples for a study by Kelly Sieg to look at isotopes and hopefully determine where
these owls are coming from.
 
Checking reference material
 
Measuring the beak
 
Matching the iris color
 
Securing a band
 
Looking at the wing span
 
The owls patiently waited to be measured!
 
Checking to make sure the band is secure
 
Owls watched from above
 
The fall of 2007 gave us a very large Northern
Saw-whet movement.
 
 
 

November 19, 2006
 

November 20, 2005
 

November 20, 2004
 

 


Last updated on February 16, 2008