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

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.          

A Brown Thrasher who has just received its unique 9-digt USGS band at the USGS Bird Banding Lab's Fall Migration Station.

Downy Woodpecker's tail is spread to better view marking and two new tail feathers growing in, during banding at the USGS Bird Banding Lab's Fall Migration Station.

An adult female Blue-winged Warbler at the USGS Bird Banding Lab's Fall Migration Station. 

A Yellow-bellied Flycatcher banded at the Bird Banding Lab's Fall Migration Station.

An American Woodcock receives its USGS metal band at the Bird Banding Lab's Fall Migration Station.

A banded Field Sparrow that was found as part of a bird collision survey at Prudential Tower in Newark, New Jersey in 2020.

This is the banding station used by BBL for years before the recent upgrades. 

Melissa Roach, biologist with the Patuxent Bird Banding Lab, bands a pelican chick on Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay.

Three biologists with the USGS Bird Banding Lab at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center prepare to band pelican chicks on Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay.

Two double-crested cormorant chicks in their nest on Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland.

Laysan Albatross nesting colony on Sand Island, Midway Atoll, Northwest Hawaiian Islands.

Think habitat: not grass. Powerlines that run through the Patuxent Wildlife Research Refuge, near Laurel, MD are managed as shrub habitat instead of mowed, which provides stopover habitat for migratory birds.

A Yellow-bellied Sapsucker on a cold winter day taken in Owings, Maryland, USA

Peregrine Falcon 'Ben" was banded with a USGS auxiliary marker, black over red H/34 in 2013. He nested for years on a building ledge in Chicago until struck a window and died in November 2024.

Red-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) and chick.

Many species of Hawaiian honeycreepers have persisted into the 20th century because high elevation rain forests on the islands of Kaua’i, Maui, and Hawai’i are cool enough to limit transmission of introduced avian malaria (Plasmodium relictum).

Mallard Duck swimming

A Spectacled Eider carrying an intracoelomic radio transmitter near the Colville River. To track the movements of Spectacled Eider and other waterfowl for extended periods of time, intracoelomic radio transmitters were surgically implanted in birds during the late 90s through the early 2010s.