{"id":636,"date":"2021-09-07T17:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=636"},"modified":"2021-09-07T17:01:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T17:01:15","slug":"slow-start-to-2021-banding-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":"Slow start to 2021 banding season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The 2021 owl banding season here in Homer, Alaska is off to a very slow start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nets have been open (weather permitting) since Aug 20, but before last night, only a single owl had been caught- a returning 2nd year Northern Saw-whet Owl that was originally banded here 366 days earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last night, three owls showed up- all Northern Saw-whet adults. One was another 2nd year bird with a band (again, banded here exactly 366 days earlier); the other two were after-second-year adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far, NO hatch-year birds have been banded during this season, making this season start the slowest in 12 years of banding here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First owl of the 2021 banding season- a Northern Saw-whet previously banded here in 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2021 owl banding season here in Homer, Alaska is off to a very slow start. Nets have been open (weather permitting) since Aug 20, but before last night, only a single owl had been caught- a returning 2nd year Northern Saw-whet Owl that was originally banded here 366 days earlier. Last night, three owls […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-results"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90R5U-ag","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","post_type":"post","author_name":"jason","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}