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AFMO Archives (work in progress)

Fall 2018
​AFMO opened on August 19 and closed on October 6, 2018. This was our 61st consecutive year of Bird Banding at AFMO.  A total of 3259 birds were banded (3,506 in 2017) of 74 species (71 in 2017) with a Station effort of 77 birds per 100 net hours.  A total of 273,524 birds have been banded since Ralph K. Bell founded AFMO and banded his first bird on September 18, 1958. 
The total species banded at AFMO from 1958 ~ 2018 = 127.
                                                                                                                                                      Copyright 2018 Joan Bell Pattison    All right reserved
                                                  2018 top 10 species netted, logged, and banded
​Black-throated Blue Warbler-892
Black-throated Green Warbler-348
Blackpoll Warbler- 259
Blackburnian Warbler-245

Cape May Warbler-225
​Tennessee Warbler-213
Swainson's Thrush-150

Magnolia Warbler-125
Common Yellowthroat-116
​Chestnut-sided Warbler-78
2018 Allegheny Front Migration Observatory: 2018 Cumulative Totals ​

Fall 2017
​AFMO was opened on August 19 and closed on October 7, 2017.  This was our 60th consecutive year of Bird Banding at AFMO. 
​A total of 3,506 birds were banded of 71 species with a Station effort of 55 birds per 100 net hours. 
​A total of 270,265 birds have been banded since Ralph K. Bell founded AFMO and banded his first bird on September 18, 1958.
The total species banded at AFMO from 1958 ~ 2017 = 127.
​                                                                                                                                                      Copyright 2017 Joan Bell Pattison    All right reserved
                                                 2017 top 10 species netted, logged, and banded

Black-throated Blue Warbler-813
Black-throated Green Warbler-393
Blackburnian Warbler-261

Cape May Warbler-256
​​Blackpoll Warbler-240 ​
​Magnolia Warbler-227
Tennessee Warbler-199
​Swainson's Thrush-182

​Dark-eyed Junco-180
​Common Yellowthroat-138
2017 Allegheny Front Migration Observatory 2017 Cumulative Totals ​

Fall 2016
​AFMO was opened on August 13 and closed on October 2, 2016.  This year (2016) was our 59th consecutive year of Bird Banding at AFMO.  A total of 5423 birds were banded of 77 species with a Station effort of 88 birds per 100 net hours.
​A total of 266,759 birds have been banded since 
Ralph K. Bell founded AFMO and banded his first bird on September 8, 1958. 
The total species banded at AFMO from 1958 ~ 2016 = 125.

                                                                                                                                                      Copyright 2016 Joan Bell Pattison    All right reserved
                                                   2016 top 10 species netted, logged, and banded

Black-throated Blue Warbler-1,082
Blackpoll Warbler-858
Cape May Warbler-565
​Black-throated Green Warbler-457
​Tennessee Warbler-443 ​
​Swainson's Thrush-371
​Blackburnian Warbler-267
Magnolia Warbler-232
Ovenbird-169
​Common Yellowthroat-117
​Allegheny Front Migration Observatory 2016 Cumulative Totals

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