Starting my field season this morning: Post a coin with a bird on it!

[pendragon1998]

This morning, I dragged myself out of bed at 4:30 to get ready for the first day of my first field season as a M.S. student. My project (total workers: 1, moi) is based around a 3-month series of bird surveys conducted across several urban to rural gradients of development intensity. I'm interested in how bird communities in residential developments change with differing levels of regional and local development intensity and with housing development age (what a mouthfull). The long and the short of it is I'm going to have a lot of 4:00 am mornings through the end of July.

 

In honor of my field season beginning, post a photo of your coins with birds on them. Don't limit yourselves to boring old eagles!

 

Wish me luck...

 

[dooly]

There you go a Polish bird for you

 

 

Good luck with the ringing i used to ring in the early 90's at Sandwich bay bird Obs and other sites around the country my "best" bird i rung there was a Lesser spotted woodpecker which we caught in our CE mist nets.. saying that the glossy ibis was also a "canny" bird

ps whats the bird in the hand it looks "simmilar" to a coal tit but a lot longer in the tail and larger jizz

[pendragon1998]

I wish I was banding, but this project's going to be mainly point counts. I'm going to try and volunteer at a banding station this summer when I'm done with my project for the season.

 

The bird I'm holding is a Carolina Chickadee, Poecile carolinensis, which is indeed a variety of tit (for those of you non-birders with dirty minds, a tit is a member of a particular family of birds). That bird was mist-netted in southern Mississippi, but they're very common across the southern United States. Chickadees are fantastic little birds, but since they're found all over the place, many birders only give them a passing glance.

[dooly]

I wish I was banding, but this project's going to be mainly point counts. I'm going to try and volunteer at a banding station this summer when I'm done with my project for the season.

 

The bird I'm holding is a Carolina Chickadee, Poecile carolinensis, which is indeed a variety of tit (for those of you non-birders with dirty minds, a tit is a member of a particular family of birds). That bird was mist-netted in southern Mississippi, but they're very common across the southern United States. Chickadees are fantastic little birds, but since they're found all over the place, many birders only give them a passing glance.

 

sorry forgot it was called banding in the us

Ah! a chickadee thats it !

i had some great times "banding" i remember catching over 400 sand martins with mists and tape lures on one day that was amazing.. good luck with the Volunteering

[DC Dawg]

Carolina Chickadee

For some reason, this reminded me of the movie My Little Chickadee starring W.C. Fields and Mae West.

 

Actually, I'm surprised at the pix... round face, full beard, Georgia hat... almost looks like a younger version of ME! We could almost be brothers!!

 

Scott

[satootoko]

The bird I'm holding is a Carolina Chickadee, Poecile carolinensis, which is indeed a variety of tit

How does it compare in size and coloration to the Little Tom Tit (aka Dickey Bird) that committed suicide after sitting in a tree by the river, during the second act of Gilbert & Sullivan's Mikado?

 

Oh yeah - in keeping with the title of the thread, here's an Aussie Kookaburra.

[bsshog40]

That's a sharp bird coin Roy.

[rbrown4]

Very nice Austrailian coin.

 

Here is a Canadian Goose on a 1967 Canadian Dollar.

 

Rey

 

[bsshog40]

Cool canadian Dollar Rey!

[rrantique]

Wow some very nice birds

 

I had to dig deep for these

[rbrown4]

Thought this one would be appropriate as well since you will be getting up so early in the morning. Only problem is this Rooster speaks french

 

[rrantique]

Oh yeah "*spoon* le doodle le doo"

 

Oops i got spooned

[pendragon1998]

 

I rather like this one - what's it called?

[rbrown4]

Here is another fine feathered friend from a 1955 British Farthing.

 

 

[physics-fan3.14]

I just went out on the river today with my family in central Florida, and we saw some cool birds. We saw a pair of sandhill cranes, and as we passed them they started calling. It was loud, and really cool. Our guide said they probably had a nest. We also saw a family of limpkins, two adults and two juveniles.

[dooly]

No comment !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MUTE

 

[rrantique]

km#694 5 Forint (1992+) hungarian Michael

sorry for the poor quality of the photo

[bsshog40]

That's a neat coin there Dooly!! Where did you ever find something like that? That would make a great gift for the better half!

[trozau]

How about a bird man?

 

[rbrown4]

I would provide information on these if I knew it. Any ideas? I have several of these type, any interest out there?

 

 

[Zoins]

How about a bird man?

 

Now that is pretty cool! Love that knight in armor

[rrantique]

I would provide information on these if I knew it. Any ideas? I have several of these type, any interest out there?

 

 

 

I think i found them Rey, here is link.

 

http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/Libya.html

[rbrown4]

Yep, that is them, thank you. I have been going through a World Coin Book from the Library that is about 4 inches thick and had about given up. Am still going to have to decipher the dates I believe.

 

Rey,

[farthing]

Yep, that is them, thank you. I have been going through a World Coin Book from the Library that is about 4 inches thick and had about given up. Am still going to have to decipher the dates I believe.

 

Rey,

 

From the left - 1972, 1973 and 1960

[farthing]

Or in the Hejira calendar:

AH 1392, AH 1393 and AH 1380

[rbrown4]

Farthing,

 

Thank you very much.

 

Rey