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Allegheny Front Migratory Observatory (AFMO) 
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​The Allegheny Front Migratory Observatory (AFMO) is located within the Monongahela National Forest in Grant County West Virginia.  Ten miles southeast of Davis West Virginia, the banding station is 4,000 feet up on the Allegheny Front mountain range in the area know as Dolly Sods.  The observatory station and mist nets are set up in late summer and then dismantled in early fall each year.    
​AFMO is the oldest, continuous Bird Banding Station in North America.
2019: The sixty-second season 

Data from the last three years​
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 since 1958 is 125.
                                                                                                                                                      Copyright 2018 Joan Bell Pattison    All right reserved
2018 AFMO                                                                                              Top 10 birds banded in 2018
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
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2018 Allegheny Front Migration Observatory 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 since 1958 is 127.
​                                                                                                                                                      Copyright 2017 Joan Bell Pattison    All right reserved

2017 AFMO                                                                                                                                                                           Top 10 birds banded in 2017

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 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 since 1958 is 125.

                                                                                                                                                      Copyright 2016 Joan Bell Pattison    All right reserved

2016 AFMO                                                                                                                                                                           Top 10 birds banded in 2016

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
2016 Allegheny Front Migration Observatory Cumulative Totals

History of the Allegheny Front Migratory Observatory

Read the comprehensive History of AFMO. 
Read the WV Wildlife Magazine AFMO Article.
Learn about the Dolly Sods Wilderness.​
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