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In the fall of 2022, the BBL's Fall Migration Station had a surprising number of early migrants pass through the station at the end of August, including an abundance of Blue-gray Gnatcatchers. 

Elaine Nakash educates visitors and volunteers alike at the USGS Bird Banding Laboratory's display table, which was setup for the Latino Conservation Week event at the National Wildlife Visitor Center at Patuxent Research Refuge. 

Bird Banding Laboratory Biologist, Stephanie Egger, extracts a thrush from a mist net.

Stephanie Egger smiles for the camera with her Bird Safe Philly program supplies. 

A map of where birds were banded in 2021, in blue, a total of over 600,000 banding records.

A map of where previously-banded birds were found in 2021, in pink, a total of almost 120,000 encounter and recapture records. An “encounter” is any observation of a previously-banded bird, of which a “recapture” is a special case where the bird is captured by a permitted bander, either the person who originally band

Banders compare the wings of two banded Purple Finches at the USGS Bird Banding Lab's Fall Migration Station. 

A male Sharp-shinned Hawk banded at the USGS Bird Banding Lab's Fall Migration Station. 

A Pacific Golden-Plover (Pluvialis fulva), like the one pictured, was originally banded with a USGS federal leg band in Alaska and then encountered in Japan several months later. Currently the BBL is working together with Japan's banding scheme to ensure bird movement data, like this, gets recorded from both schemes.

A Tufted Titmouse recaptured at the Bird Banding Lab's Fall Migration Station in 2021, originally banded at the station in 2013.

A bander examine's the wing of a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, using Peter Pyle's book "Identification Guide to North American Birds" to age and sex the individual. 

The first House Finch caught at the USGS Bird Banding Lab's Fall Migration Station since 1999. 

Black-and-white Warblers are one of the more common warbler species banded at the BBL's Fall Migration Banding Station. 

Cape May Warbler banded at the USGS Bird Banding Lab's Fall Migration Station.

The buffy “teardrops” you see on some of the feathers indicate that this Swainson's Thrush hatched this summer and is making its first-ever migratory journey! This bird that was banded October 1, 2021 at the Bird Banding Lab’s fall migration banding station at Patuxent Research Refuge in Maryland.

A Swainson's Thrush banded at the Bird Banding Lab's Fall Migration Station.    

EESC Bird Banding Lab Team Photo Sep 15 2021_Tom O'Connell Credit.  This photos show the team of banders at the bird banding station during fall migration at Patuxent Research Refuge

The Eastern Ecological Science Center Bird Banding Lab at Patuxent Research Refuge on Sep 15 2021 Kyra Harvey.

EESC Bird Banding Lab_Matt Rogosky and Lauren Walker_Sep 15 2021_Tom OConnell Credit

A Connecticut Warbler banded at the Bird Banding Lab's Fall Migration Station.

A Canada Warbler with new band at the Bird Banding Lab's fall station.