It was interesting to read your story about the 9 year old chickadee. Last year, at the J C Hormel Nature Center, we captured a Black-capped chickadee on Jan 28, 2015 that we had banded on Feb 2, 2006 making it at least 10 years old. Like you we have found that we have often recaptured the same chickadee 4-5 times over the years. This 10 year old was different in that we had not once recaptured it. I am wondering where it spent those 10 years! > On Dec 10, 2016, at 5:19 PM, Tom Bell <[email protected]> wrote: > > On December 9, Dennis Donath recorded that the age of the Chickadee he was > handling will be 9 years old after Jan 1, 2017. The bird was first captured > and banded at Carpenter Nature Center on 11/07/09. That is old for a > chickadee, very few exceed 5 years in age. For those doing the math in human > figuring, it is not that old, the banding laboratory lists the birds hatching > year as year one and after each New Years Day it is a year older. That > chickadee entered our traps or flew into a mist net numerous times over the > years. I wonder if it learned that if it walked into a Potter’s trap and > hopped on the treadle it could sit and eat sun flower seeds till someone came > and extracted it. > > Tom Bell > Grey Cloud Island > 5868 Pioneer Rd. S. > St. Paul Park, MN 55071 > 651 459-4150 > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
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