Quarry Hill Nature Center hosted their monthly bird banding event on Sunday, August 3, 2025 in Rochester. People are encouraged to join and help in catching, banding and releasing birds to collect ...

Avian researchers from Berkshire Bird Observatory, part of Green Berkshires, set up long ‘mist nets’ to catch migratory birds, banding and recording data about them at Jug End State Reservation in ...

On Saturday morning I joined an overflow crowd of birding enthusiasts at the Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area for a celebration of World Migratory Bird Day. The event consisted of a number of ...

The Berkshire Bird Observatory (BBO) brings groups of visitors into the woods to witness the secretive northern saw-whet owls that the organization captures in large ‘mist nets’ set up at Jug End ...

PHOTO GALLERY: Identification bands are carefully attached to birds during special program at the Wildlands Conservancy’s Pool Wildlife Sanctuary on Sunday, January 17, 2016. Allentown police converge ...

“Does your group band black skimmers?” was the title on an email to the nsaudubon.gmail.com account. “Today, I photographed one with a YELLOW BAND and the NC Audubon researcher tells me that this is a ...

People gather to watch Federal Bird Bander, Paul Karner, left, of Bangor and Kevin Kelly of Albrightsville, band 10 day old Kestrel babies on Friday July 1, 2022 at Grand Central Education Center in ...

Wildcat Hills State Recreation Area and Chadron State Park saw a lot of birds this fall migration season. From Aug. 24 to Oct. 15, staff banded nearly 700 songbirds between the two stations. Bird ...

MyDNR, Indiana’s Outdoor Newsletter: Help DNR calculate harvest rates. July was dove banding season, when DNR bands mourning doves across the state. This important research effort helps estimate ...

A swainson’s thrush banded at Gulf Coast Bird Observatory. When studying animals in the wild, researchers must often keep track of and identify individual animals. In ornithology, the study of birds, ...

They are small, simple bands of aluminum, most of them, with an eight- or nine-digit number boldly indented along their length and a few words and numbers in smaller script crammed above and below.

2016 marks the 100th anniversary of the North American Migratory Bird Treaty -- and the modern era of the bird banding program. While primitive, the simple metal anklets are one of the most valuable ...