Eastern Bird Banding Association

Eastern Bird Banding Association Our mission is to encourage investigations into the biology and migration of birds through banding.

🐦 SAVE THE DATE! 🐦 The 2027 EBBA Annual Meeting will be here before you know it!📅 April 2–3, 2027We’re keeping the locat...
08/31/2026

🐦 SAVE THE DATE! 🐦 The 2027 EBBA Annual Meeting will be here before you know it!

📅 April 2–3, 2027

We’re keeping the location under wraps just a little longer, but hints are coming soon! Keep an eye on EBBA’s social media and see if you can figure out where we’re headed!

Mark your calendars. We can’t wait to see you in 2027! 🪶

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🚨 Register for our September webinar with the banding lab! Our September webinar is coming up, and we’re thrilled to hos...
08/24/2026

🚨 Register for our September webinar with the banding lab!

Our September webinar is coming up, and we’re thrilled to host Stephanie Egger from the USGS Bird Banding Laboratory!

If you are banding birds in the US, or curious about the bird banding lab - this will be a great webinar for you!

We hope to talk a little bit about permitting and banding processes, BBL resources, and there will be a Q&A at the end.

Join us on September 16th at 7 PM ET!

Register on our website: https://easternbirdbanding.org/event-6805947

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08/24/2026

🪶Want to band cool birds on an island in the western Pacific?IBP is hiring 2 banders to help re-establish &
operate bird banding stations on the island of Rota, in the Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands. PROJECT DATES: Oct. 10 thru Dec. 20, 2026. More info at the link in our bio.

Last week, a few of our EBBA members migrated to Sedona, Arizona for the North American Banding Council (NABC) meeting! ...
08/18/2026

Last week, a few of our EBBA members migrated to Sedona, Arizona for the North American Banding Council (NABC) meeting! Isn’t this such a stunning backdrop for a bird banding meeting?

For those who may be unfamiliar, NABC is a nonprofit organization that brings together bird research organizations and individuals who use bird banding as a tool for research, conservation, and management. NABC works to promote responsible and ethical banding practices through education, training, and certification.

NABC has developed banding manuals and a three-level certification program (Assistant, Ba**er, and Trainer) to help advance knowledge and best practices in the field.

Check out their website to learn more and look for upcoming workshops and certification sessions: https://nabanding.net/

🚨🐦 A really neat foreign recapture - Less than 24 hours between captures!�This young Northern Waterthrush had quite an e...
08/10/2026

🚨🐦 A really neat foreign recapture - Less than 24 hours between captures!�

This young Northern Waterthrush had quite an eventful 24 hours last fall.

After being banded at Long Point Bird Observatory in Ontario, Canada, on September 5, 2025, this hatch-year bird was recaptured less than 24 hours later at a Bird Lab banding station near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. These two sites have quite different habitats (pictured here) and are about 165 miles (265 km) apart from eachother!

This recapture provides a snapshot of a single bird’s migration journey, but it also highlights the importance of conserving stopover habitat along migration routes. Migrating birds rely on suitable places to rest and refuel as they travel hundreds or thousands of miles between breeding and wintering grounds.

Recaptures between banding stations are rare, and the data they provide are incredibly valuable. If you have a foreign recapture that you would like EBBA to highlight – please message us!

All banding is conducted under a federally authorized Bird Banding Permit issued by the U.S. Geological Survey.

Until recently, ornithologists lacked transmitters small enough to safely deploy on hummingbirds while meeting minimum w...
08/05/2026

Until recently, ornithologists lacked transmitters small enough to safely deploy on hummingbirds while meeting minimum weight guidelines. However, researchers can now answer questions about hummingbird movement thanks to the novel, miniature technology pictured here!

In collaboration together, the Banding Coalition of the Americas (BCA) and Cellular Tracking Technologies (CTT) developed and field-tested an ultra-light, solar-powered transmitter (CTT’s BlūMorpho; weighing just 0.060 grams!), making it possible to study hummingbird movement ecology in great detail.

Join EBBA on August 19 at 7 PM ET for a webinar with Dr. Emma Rhodes of Banding Coalition of the Americas [BCA] to learn more about this groundbreaking technology and the research it is making possible. All banding and tagging operations are being conducted under a federally authorized Bird Banding Permit issued by the U.S. Geological Survey's BBL.

Register today on the EBBA website! https://easternbirdbanding.org/

Those cute “whiskers” around a bird’s bill are actually specialized feathers called rictal bristles! They have a stiff c...
07/27/2026

Those cute “whiskers” around a bird’s bill are actually specialized feathers called rictal bristles! They have a stiff central shaft (rachis) and sometimes a few small barbs near the base. Ornithologists are still examining the purpose of these neat feathers, but they may help protect a bird’s eyes like eyelashes or act as sensory structures, as the follicles at their base contain nerves.

If you’re lucky, you might catch a bird in the middle of replacing its rictal bristles! Like all feathers, they grow enclosed in a keratin sheath and have a blood supply while they’re developing. Check out this Brown Thrasher with new rictal bristles growing in!

We’re excited to welcome Dr. Emma Rhodes as the presenter for our August EBBA Webinar! Emma has been doing some incredib...
07/21/2026

We’re excited to welcome Dr. Emma Rhodes as the presenter for our August EBBA Webinar! Emma has been doing some incredible work with Banding Coalition of the Americas, and we’re so glad to have her share some of it with us.

Discover how a new generation of ultralight Motus transmitters are opening new doors in hummingbird movement ecology. This webinar will highlight how researchers are using this new technology to track hummingbird migration and uncover previously unknown details about their movements.

Join us on August 19th at 7 PM ET!

Register on our website: https://easternbirdbanding.org/

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