estas CU, Dae ONS BU Eien 4) 
By the end of my initial year in this fascinating work, I had tagged 511 
birds of 43 species. From that point on, my annual totals more or less kept 
growing. Here are my banding statistics for 39 years: 
Year of 1933 511 Year of 1953 851 
1934 2,019 1954 947 
1935 ipa 1955 1,408 
1936 1,804 1956 1,071 
1937 1,516 1957 978 
1938 2,494 1958 1,171 
1939 2,297 1959 979 
1940 2,148 1960 955 
194] 1,417 1961 1,425 
1942 E01 19€2 812 
1943 1,801 1963 1,719 
1944 1,770 1964 1,757 
1945 1,477 1965 1,340 
1946 514 1966 624 
1947 914 1967 882 
1948 1,216 1968 943 
1949 1,843 19€9 1,114 
1950 1,275 1970 1,809 
1951 828 1971 1,289 
1952 970 TOTAL 50,898 
I have station returns for 33 species, as follows: 
434 Black-capped Chickadee 6 Red-bellied Woodpecker 
174 Slate-colored Junco 5 Starling 
157 Downy Woodpecker 5 Rufus-sided Towhee 
96 Common Grackle 4 House Wren 
74 White-breasted Nuthatch 4 Mourning Dove 
48 Robin 3 Screech Owl 
43 Blue Jay 2 Oregon Junco 
42 Cardinal 2 Field Sparrow 
37 Brown Thrasher 2 Flicker 
27 Tufted Titmice 1 Magnolia Warbler 
20 Tree Sparrow 1 Myrtle Warbler 
19 Catbird 1 Black-crowned Night Heron 
19 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch 
17 Song Sparrow 1 Barn Owl 
15 Blue bird 1 Semi-palmated Sandpiper 
7 Bobwhite 1 Swamp Sparrow 
6 Cowbird 
I have “foreign” recoveries for 46 species, all of which are listed below. But 
first, here are four of the oldest: 
Black-crowned Night Heron, banded June 2, 1940, Winnebago, IIL; 
found dead Randall Lake, Wis., Feb. 11, 1955—14 years, 8 months later. 
Great Blue Heron, banded July 3, 1937, Depue, Ill.; shot Rock Island, 
Ill., Oct. 26, 1951—14 years 3 months later. 
