Birds Banded At Hilton Pond and Encountered Within York Co., South Carolina

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Table #3:
27 BIRDS BANDED at HILTON POND
and RECOVERED/RECAPTURED WITHIN
YORK COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA

(28 June 1982 through 8 April 2009)

Juvenile Male Sharp-shinned Hawk, Accipiter striatus

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Of more than 48,600 birds banded since 1982 at Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History, only 27 had been reported through 8 April 2009 as found dead or recaptured and released within surrounding York County. This is an extremely low rate of only about 0.06%.

On the table below, birds highlighted in GREEN were retrapped and released by other banders (or hand-caught by other individuals), those in BLACK were found dead, and those in RED were killed by cats. Mourning Doves were shot legally during hunting season; any other shootings were illegal.

AGE KEY

L = Local (bird was hatched locally and banded as a nestling, or as a fledgling incapable of sustained flight)
HY = Hatch Year (bird was hatched in the current year)
AHY = After Hatch Year (bird was hatched in a previous but unknown year)
2Y = Second Year (bird was hatched in the preceding year)
A2Y = After Second Year (bird was hatched not the preceding year but sometime prior to that; follow same formula for A3Y, A4Y, etc.)
U = Unknown (bird's age could not be determined; usually used in fall when HY birds are indistinguishable from adults)

#	SPECIES	BAND NUMBER	BANDING DATE	AGE- SEX	REMARKS/ AGE-SEX	ENCOUNTER DATE	ENCOUNTER LOCATION	AIR MILES
1	Common Grackle	1423-89007	06/30/82	HY-U	shot (2Y-U)	06/13/83	Clover	10
2	House Finch	0980-32066	12/21/82	U-M	found dead, hit stationary object (AHY-M)	03/24/83	York	< 5
3	House Finch	0980-32123	01/15/83	AHY-M	found dead (AHY-M)	02/??/83	York	< 5
4	Common Grackle	1423-89027	04/16/83	AHY-M	found dead (A2Y-M)	05/15/84	York	< 5
5	Common Grackle	1423-89088	05/08/83	AHY-M	found dead (A5Y-M)	04/10/87	York	< 5
6	House Finch	2000-76639	03/17/84	AHY-F	found dead, hit stationary object (AHY-F)	03/27/84	York	< 5
7	Common Grackle	1423-89274	05/05/84	AHY-F	killed by cat (A2Y-F)	05/??/85	York	< 5
8	Purple Finch	2000-76857	02/03/85	AHY-U	found dead (AHY-U)	03/14/85	York	< 5
9	Purple Finch	2010-74142	12/14/85	AHY-M	found dead, hit stationary object (A2Y-M)	01/27/86	York	< 5
10	Mourning Dove	1303-21508	03/24/86	AHY-M	shot (AHY-M)	09/06/86	McConnells	10
11	Ruby- throated Hummingbird	7000-37650	07/14/86	HY-F	found dead (2Y-F)	04/21/87	Clover	< 5
12	Evening Grosbeak	0951-72553	02/28/87	AHY-F	found dead (AHY-F)	04/29/87	York	< 5
13	Mourning Dove	1333-92289	04/03/88	AHY-M	shot (ASY-M)	09/09/89	York	< 5
14	Yellow- rumped Warbler	1920-44482	12/30/91	HY-U	found dead 6Y-U	03/28/96	York	< 5
15	House Finch	2091-21680	08/12/91	L-U	caught by hand, released (HY-U)	09/04/91	Rock Hill	10
16	Purple Finch	2111-88319	03/04/93	A2Y-M	found dead (A6Y-M)	02/20/97	York	< 5
17	Mourning Dove	1333-92367	08/26/93	AHY-F	shot (AHY-F)	09/04/93	York	< 5
18	Sharp- shinned Hawk	0912-83399	10/25/93	HY-M	found dead (SY-M)	02/??/94	York	< 5
19	American Goldfinch	1960-80290	01/26/94	2Y-F	found dead (2Y-F)	03/16/94	York	< 5
20	Purple Finch	2141-66822	03/01/94	AHY-U	recaptured, released (AHY-U)	03/19/94	Catawba	15
21	House Finch	2141-66866	03/21/94	AHY-M	found dead (A4Y-M)	05/15/97	York	< 5
22	Mourning Dove	1333-92385	02/09/96	AHY-M	shot (A2Y-M)	09/20/97	York	< 5
23	American Goldfinch	1661-99041	12/24/98	HY-M	found dead (6Y-M)	05/08/03	York	< 5
24	American Goldfinch	1661-99138	01/23/99	ASY-M	found dead (A3Y-M)	07/24/00	York	< 5
25	Purple Finch	1571-50205	01/23/00	AHY-U	found dead, hit stationary object (AHY-U)	01/28/00	York	< 5
26	Northern Cardinal	8101-40733	10/19/00	HY-F	killed by auto (2Y-F)	04/25/03	York	< 5
26	House Finch	2281-11800	07/14/08	HY-M	found dead (2Y-M)	04/05/09	York	< 1

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