[SEMCO] CCMNH Bird Banding

[The Gilligans]

The Friends of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History

Presents

Bird Banding: What it is, and Why it is so Important

With Sue Finnegan, NABC Certified Master Bander & Trainer 

 

Tuesday, February 8, 2011, at 1:30pm

Cape Cod Museum of Natural History

869 Rte 6A, Brewster, MA 02631

508-896-3867 x 133    www.ccmnh.org

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 17, 2011

Contact: Gayle Kenerson 508-385-2192 or gck1 at comcast.net 

 

Friends of CCMNH monthly program will be held on Tuesday, February 8, 2011
at 1:00pm

Followed by a talk at 1:30pm 

Bird Banding: What it is, and Why it is so Important

With Sue Finnegan, NABC Certified Master Bander & Trainer

 

As you might guess, this presentation is not about a group of birds getting
together to play music. Bird banding is a universal and indispensable
technique for studying the movement, survival and behavior of birds. Sue
will show how wild birds are carefully caught in a controlled setting.  She
will describe the information that is recorded for each bird, such as its
weight, age and sex. After putting up with this brief interruption in its
flight, each bird is rewarded with a pretty bracelet that identifies it from
every other banded bird. Banding not only provides information about each
individual bird, but is a way to help us better understand the paths and
environments used by birds, their life-span and survival rate, and their
behavior. 

 

Sue Finnegan graduated from Northeastern University and Harvard's School of
Medicine Joint Center for Radiation Therapy. Her interest in birds was
revived staying home to care for her young children. Sue began banding
birds, studying under a Master Bander for six years. She obtained her own
Master Permit and opened the Wing Island Bird Banding Station at the CCMNH
in 2000. She studied with Peter Pyle, ornithologist and author of
"Identification Guide to North American Birds" and became nationally
certified by the North American Birding Council (NABC) in 2001, has received
specialized training for banding 

hummingbirds, and has earned trainer-level certification from NABC. Sue has
been President of the Eastern Bird Banding Association and is a member of
the Association of Field Ornithologists.   

 

1:00pm Friends Meeting

1:30pm Talk by Sue Finnegan

Friends/free  Guests/$3

 

 

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