GA 2016 AMOY Summary

Tim Keyes

GA DNR

Winter roost survey (1/26/16)

• Aerial survey

• 918 birds

Breeding Summary• Low productivity

• 120 Pairs – 20 fledged chicks (0.17 chicks/pair)• Key sites had high depredation

• Offshore bars – flooding tides

• Range-wide survey – 4 sites

• High points • Coyote control on 2 islands improved productivity

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2016 AMOY production by site

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2015 AMOY PAIRS AND CHICKS FLEDGED

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Capture summary• Captured 140 AMOY

• 17 recaptures, replaced bands on 5

• Banded 123 AMOY • 96 cannon netted (4 captures)

• 9 bow-netting adults on nest

• 18 pre-flighted chicks banded

11/8/16 trapping

Migration & Winter Band re-sight• Paired surveys of 3 sound systems through Fall,

Winter and Spring• Altamaha, St Simons and St Andrews Sound

• >1000 re-sights of 260 individuals• (9 MA, 3 NJ/NY, 1 DE, 13 VA, 25 NC, 2 SC, 207 GA)