{"id":108745,"date":"2022-03-15T05:35:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T11:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=108745"},"modified":"2022-03-15T06:50:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T12:50:35","slug":"a-second-banded-male-american-kestrel-on-antelope-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/15\/a-second-banded-male-american-kestrel-on-antelope-island\/","title":{"rendered":"A Second Banded Male American Kestrel On Antelope Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

And now I know the banding info about this kestrel too.<\/p>\n

About three weeks ago I posted photos of a banded male American Kestrel on Antelope Island<\/a><\/span><\/span>. I was pretty sure that bird had been banded by HawkWatch International so I sent them my photos and they confirmed my suspicion, telling me when and where they had banded him.<\/p>\n

Three days ago I photographed a different banded male American Kestrel on the island.<\/p>\n

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He was perched on the roof of a picnic pavilion and at first I couldn’t see any bands. But when he performed a wing stretch a green plastic? band on his left leg was revealed.<\/p>\n

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A tight crop of the same photo makes the lettering on the band easy to read.<\/p>\n

From past I experience I know that birds banded by HWI often have two bands – a large, colored plastic band on one leg and a smaller metal Federal band on the other. So I took lots of photos of this bird hoping to see if he had a second band on his right leg. But while I was fiddling with the controls on my camera he took off and I didn’t see where he went so I just gave up and drove away to look for other birds.<\/p>\n

But about a half mile down the road I began to wonder if I’d find him in the same area again if I went back. So I did.<\/p>\n

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And sure enough, there he was, this time perched on the peak of the roof of the same pavilion. It’s a favorite perch for starlings so it’s covered with bird poop. Once again, at first I couldn’t see any bands on his right leg, but when he raised that foot while preening a shiny metal Federal band was revealed.<\/p>\n

So yesterday I sent these photos to Nikki Wayment, Executive Director of HWI, and asked her if it was one of “their” birds and she confirmed that it was. She showed the photos to Dave Oleyar, Director of Long-term Monitoring at HWI, and this is what he said about this particular male kestrel.<\/p>\n

“He was banded by Jessica on June 24 last year as a nestling in a box on the island. So he survived his winter on the island, and hopefully we’ll find him paired and nesting soon.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

I like knowing, with confirmed accuracy, some of the history of the birds I see and photograph. For this bird photographer it makes life just a little more interesting.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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PS – Normally I never assign pet names to wild birds but with this guy I’m tempted. Yesterday morning I saw him again in almost the same spot as before. It was very close to St. Patrick’s day, he has a green band on one leg and yesterday was my daughter’s birthday. Her name is Shannon.<\/em><\/p>\n

So I keep thinking of him as “Patrick”.<\/em><\/p>\n

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And now I know the banding info about this kestrel too.<\/p>\n

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