The oldest Yellow Warbler ever documented was recaptured in June (link is very slow to load). First banded in June of 2001 at Five Rivers Environmental Education Center (where I saw my trigger bird) she is at least 11 years old!
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy and Desmond Shearwater. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
That is so unbelievably awesome! Thank goodness for bird banding stations to document this kind of stuff.
Amazing!! Banding is fantastic. What knowledge to be gleened here. We have so much to learn to help these birds and preserve their natural environment.Bravo!!
How cool to have recaptured that bird. Yellow Warblers should be showing up in Costa Rica anytime now.