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The Appledore Island Migration Banding Station

 

This page was created for the banders and band-aides at the Appledore Island Migration Banding Station.  Feel free to make suggestions on information I should post here. 

RESOURCES

• List of items you might want to bring to the island.
• How to get to SML (links to the SML page, including directions, parking, etc.)
• 2009 Participant's Guide to Appledore Island

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• I have begun preparing the Spring Schedule. Our tentative schedule is to open the station on May 2 and run until June 7.
• The Shoals Lab will be asking folks to fill out the Cornell Volunteer Agreement and to provide 1)  an emergency contact name and phone # of someone located OFF island and; 2) any food or other allergies.  Information and forms are available at http://www.sml.cornell.edu/sml_support_volunteercorps.html  This form will need to be filled out every two years.
• Please pay for your stay after you leave the island.  All payments need to be made to the Shoals Marine Lab and should be sent to:
              Shoals Marine Lab
              G-14 Stimson Hall
              Cornell University
              Ithaca, NY 14853 
  In the notes section of the check, please indicate bird banding station fees.
• The boat list is on the web (http://www.sml.cornell.edu/sml_event.taf), but you must let the island know when you plan to arrive.  Please call Pam Boutilier at SML's Portsmouth, NH office (603-430-5220) or email Pam at: shoals-lab-east@cornell.edu to schedule boat reservations for your arrival and departure. Please note that the boat schedule is definitely tentative and subject to change - Wednesdays and weekends have historically been the most predictable boats, but even those are subject to change.  Please make sure you check with Pam about your reservation 1-2 days BEFORE your arrival, otherwise, if you have last minute concerns about weather, etc. and need to reach SML staff on the DAY OF travel, and you can not reach Pam, please call the island office: 603-964-9011.
• We will have three parking spaces at ISSCo for the spring.  Please check with the bander in charge to see whether one is available during your stay on the island.  Other parking options remain the same (http://www.sml.cornell.edu/sml_gettingtosml.html has details).
• In addition to the banding, this year we will continue monitoring the area around the new wind turbine for any bird mortality (the state of Maine is requiring this for the island to put up the tower).  The tower went up last summer and you can see the turbine at http://www.sml.cornell.edu/image/gallery/sml.turbine.jpg or at http://airmap.unh.edu/data/data.html?site=AIRMAPIS).  One of my students is also looking at the behavior of birds around the turbine, so if you are interested in helping collect some data for that project, let me know.
• I have developed a listserve for the station so that we can send out general announcements.  Please let me know if you would like to be added, or know of others who should be added.

Other web sites of interest include:

Bird Banding Lab
North American Banding Council
Ringing/Banding Web Pages Database

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/ (this web site provides an astronomical calculator to get sunrise and sunset times anywhere)

Ornithological Societies of North America
Current weather conditions at the Isles of Shoals

Shoals Marine Lab
My home page

The information provided here is only for the use of banders and bandaides of the Appledore Island Migration Banding Station. Any data or original documents posted here (within the ~morriss directory) are the property of Sara Morris who retains all rights to this information.