ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY 



17 



Pholo by William I. Lyon 



BANDING AN ADULT BIRD 



Do birds winter at the 

 same place each year in the 

 South? Ans. Mr. Baldwin's 

 trapping records at Thomas- 

 ville. Georgia, prove the re- 

 turn of Chipping and White- 

 throated Sparrows, Hermit 

 Thrushes. Myrtle, Yellow 

 and Palm Warblers to" the 

 same place each winter. 



Do birds keep the same 

 mates for life. Ans. Jack 

 Miner's records with wild 

 geese at Kingsville, Ontario, 

 prove that they are mated for 

 life and if one dies the other 

 does not remate. Mr. Bald- 

 win's records with House 

 Wrens at Gates Mills, Ohio, 

 show that these birds even 

 change mates for the second 

 brood in the same season. 

 The route of migration of 

 the different birds and the distance a bird travels in a day during migra- 

 tion? Ans. Continual trapping and banding will eventually answer such 

 questions conclusively. We are looking for persons living along the 

 shores of Lake Michigan at points about fifty miles apart to do trapping 

 and banding and keep in touch with one another by mail and by occasional 

 meetings to compare notes. 



Do birds stop to feed in the same places each year during migration? 

 Ans. Jack Miner's geese always stop at his place on the north shore ot 

 Lake Erie for food, then go on to their nesting grounds. In the fall they 

 stop again on their way sou'h. We have noticed that birds come into our 

 yard that had apparently not been there before for that season and make 

 straight for the feeding place. I believe that birds know feeding points 

 as well as we know certain restaurants. 



The following is a list of our returns to date : 



1915. May 16. Flicker, No. 34507. Caught in a hole in an apple tree 

 in our yard and banded. 



1916, May 27. Recaptured in the same hole with five young which 

 were also banded. 



Robin, No. 34062. 



1915, May 16. Banded before large enough to leave the nest in our 

 neighbor's yard. 



1916, Jan. 17. Shot at Turkey Creek, Louisiana, 850 miles from birth- 

 place. 



Robin, No. 34065. 



1915, May 19. Banded in nest on neighbor's porch. 



1916, March 31. Shot at Milltown. Georgia, 900 miles from birthplace. 



