•Greater Percentage of Foreign
Recoveries:
–2004: 528 owls, 35
foreign recoveries (6/6 %)
•21 at Small Valley, 8
at Hidden Valley, 6 Kings Gap
–2003: 393 owls, 14 foreign
recoveries (3.5 %)
–2002: 298 owls, 4 foreign
recoveries (1.3 %)
–2001: 653 owls, 19 foreign
recoveries (2.9 %)
–2000: 270 owls, 4 foreign
recoveries (1.4 %)
–1999: 714 owls, 7 foreign
recoveries (.98 %)
–
•Increase in the number of
banding stations in the eastern US and southern Canada.
•Perhaps because more
adults that usual migrated this year, giving us the opportunity
to net them.