Wing Island Bird Banding Station
is supported by the
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
www.ccmnh.org


Bird-Banding Statistics from Wing Island and Punkhorn

Below is information on the number of birds captured at Wing Island and our Punkhorn field station. We'll do our best to update this information regularly. Banding will begin in Punkhorn at the end of May.


Sue at work in the lab, banding summary 
white board in the background. 

For information on specific species of birds banded in the current or previous years, click on The following links:      updated 8/02/10

2010 BANDING STATS 

Birds Netted at Wing Island

1,489

Birds Banded at Wing Island:

891

Recaptured Birds at Wing Island:

552

Species Banded at Wing Island:

55

STATS SINCE 2000 
 (When banding began at Wing Island -Punkhorn began in 2002):

Total Birds Netted at Wing Island and Punkhorn combined:

29,490

Total Birds Banded at Wing Island and Punkhorn combined:

20,703

Total Birds Recaptured at Wing Island and Punkhorn combined:

7,523

Total # of Banded Species at Wing Island:

130

Total # of Banded Species at Punkhorn:

41