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In order to determine its age, Powdermill
banding intern, Adrienne Leppold, examines the wing plumage of #764-53706,
which she caught at last light.
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Its wing plumage lacked any contrasts among
molted and unmolted
flight feathers, showing it to be a hatching
year (HY) bird.
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Originally banded almost seven years ago
on 1/1/95, gray phase Eastern Screech Owl #745-11130 was very fat, sleepy,
and entirely docile during her recapture handling today--she was found
today in the very same roost box where she was originally banded (and where
she was also recaptured on 2/25/96) !
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Unlike #745-11130, when #745-11141 was recaptured
today she was "lean and mean," wide-eyed, very alert and ready to defend
herself with talons and beak! She was originally banded along
with her three well grown downy young at a nest box near the Powdermill
banding lab on May 25, 1998.
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