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Movements of European starlings captured at a winter roost in Omaha, Nebraska.

DOI:IND44452466
Source: OAI

ABSTRACT European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) were using downtown Omaha, Nebraska, as a winter roosting site. We used radio telemetry and leg streamers to track birds in this roost. Between late December 2005 and March 2006, we radio tagged 57 starlings and located them 432 times. We attached leg bands and colored leg streamers to over 1,300 starlings captured at trapping sites within 7 km (4 mi) of the downtown roost. These techniques yielded data on previously unknown sites where starlings gathered to forage, stage, and roost. The maximum distance that a marked bird was observed from the downtown roost was 35 km (22 mi). An effective starling management plan was implemented based on the movement and activity data we collected.

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Keywords

57 starlings
 
activity data
 
downtown roost
 
effective starling management plan
 
European starlings
 
forage
 
leg bands
 
marked bird
 
maximum distance
 
Nebraska
 
radio telemetry
 
roost
 
starlings
 
Sturnus vulgaris
 
track birds
 
trapping sites
 
unknown sites
 
winter roosting site
 

H. Jeffrey Homan