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Old Purple Finch
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu (CAROLINA BIRDS)
- Subject: Old Purple Finch
- From: "BILL HILTON JR. (Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History)"<hilton@hiltonpond.org>
- Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 12:50:33 -0500
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
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Today (12 February) at noon at Hilton Pond I re-caught a red (i.e.,
adult male) Purple Finch #2111-88193 in the pullstring platform
feeder trap outside my kitchen window.
This bird was originally captured on 15 February 1993--in the same
trap--when it was a second-year bird of unknown sex.
Curiously, I haven't seen this bird since, and it is now a NINTH-YEAR bird!
According to the Bird Banding Lab, the longevity record for a Purple
Finch is 11 years and 9 months.
I don't know where this bird has been, but I'll bet he has some
stories to tell. (Wonder how many sunflower seeds he's eaten since
1993?)
If the trend continues, I expect to see him again on 9 February 2007.
Cheers,
BILL
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BILL HILTON JR., "The Piedmont Naturalist"
Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History
1432 DeVinney Road
York, South Carolina 29745
USA
e-mail: <hilton@hiltonpond.org>
Voice: (803) 684-5852
eFax: (503) 218-0845
Hilton Pond Website: <http://www.hiltonpond.org>
Operation RubyThroat Website: <http://www.rubythroat.org>
"Never trust a person too lazy to get up for sunrise or too busy to
watch the sunset."
BHjr.
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