It was a slow morning for catching birds at Indiana Dunes State Park on Thursday despite using four nets, but Indiana Dunes Birding Festival participants got to see a variety of birds being studied…
Lily Fried, a graduate student at Miami University in Ohio, checks a net used to catch birds for banding at Indiana Dunes State Park on Thursday, May 16, 2024. The event is part of the Indiana Dunes Birding Festival, which ends Sunday. It was a slow morning for catching birds at Indiana Dunes State Park on Thursday despite using four nets, but Indiana Dunes Birding Festival participants got to see a variety of birds being studied by researchers.
“They’re safe and they’re comfortable” in the pockets, Drucker said. A captive cardinal was fussy, but others were more lackadaisical. Scientists have been banding birds for several decades, building a database of information that researchers are using now to look at issues like climate change and how it affects bird migration. Future researchers will study many other issues, using data collected now by individuals banding birds, Drucker said.
Stephanie Beilke, of Chicago, with Audubon Great Lakes, checks a gray catbird before releasing it back into the wild at Indiana Dunes State Park on Thursday, May 16, 2024. “There’s always going to be individuals that are arriving way outside the average,” Beilke said. Beilke showed one captured bird’s breast muscle, above the sternum, to eager birdwatchers. “Their breast muscles really power their flight,” she said.
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