Our station is set up and designed to capture fall migrating songbirds; rarely, we capture other taxa. Today we captured this Lesser Yellowlegs, and enjoyed learning more about this migratory shorebird that visits and breeds in Interior Alaska. We were also surprised by the capture of two Rusty Blackbirds! They are migratory songbirds in steep decline; though we see them frequently during the fall, we rarely catch them because they are large enough that they can escape from our mist nets.
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