Species: Downy Woodpecker
Most recent capture date: 2/15/2023
Age: almost one year old
​Sex: male

Notes: When bird banders talk about some species being “grippy,” we mean that they like to clutch at things with their feet. This can be counterproductive when we are trying to get them out of our net: they clutch at the net, at our fingers… One approach for mitigating this is to give them something else to hold. We gave this young woodpecker a stick so that he would let us extract him from the net.