Bird Banding Lab Projects
Bird Banding Lab Projects
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Bird Window Collisions
Reports of banded birds that have collided with windows are not uncommon for the U.S. Geological Survey’s Bird Banding Lab, with up to two billion birds are killed each year in the United States due to collisions with glass. Learn more below about the threat of bird collisions, current science and future opportunities.
Bird Banding at the Patuxent Research Refuge
The USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center's Bird Banding Lab (BBL), not only supplies bands and manages the banding data on a national level, but also has a bird banding station of its very own. The fall migration monitoring station has a long history at the Patuxent Research Refuge. Since 1979, a small area has been utilized as a mist net site and banding station in a unique habitat under the...