{"id":765,"date":"2025-02-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weebly-import-post-7"},"modified":"2026-06-17T01:43:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:43:21","slug":"a-new-season-starts-at-our-soar-banding-station-at-stanfords-jasper-ridge","status":"publish","type":"wingbeat","link":"https:\/\/sfbbo-test.twomoons.systems\/staging\/1924\/wingbeat\/a-new-season-starts-at-our-soar-banding-station-at-stanfords-jasper-ridge\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Season Starts at our Banding Station at Stanford&#8217;s Jasper Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\"><strong>By Science Director Dr. Katie LaBarbara<\/strong><\/div> <div><div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Picture\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sfbbo-test.twomoons.systems\/staging\/1924\/wp-content\/uploads\/weebly-migration\/katie.jpeg?ssl=1\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u200b<span style=\"color:rgb(67, 69, 71)\">On February 24th, 2025, the Landbirds Program opened our banding site at Stanford&#8217;s Jasper Ridge &#8216;Ootchamin &#8216;Ooyakma\u00a0for 2025.\u00a0The JR&#8217;O&#8217;O site floods each winter and is re-opened each spring, with the goal of restarting banding before the Wilson&#8217;s Warblers arrive for breeding.\u00a0<br\/><br\/>\u200bSFBBO started bird banding at JR&#8217;O&#8217;O in 2018 in collaboration with then-undergraduate Julian Tattoni, and students have remained a big part of our presence there: t<\/span><span style=\"color:rgb(67, 69, 71)\">he JR&#8217;O&#8217;O site is part of our involvement in the Student Opportunities in Avian Research initiative to give undergraduates from local universities and community colleges experience in ornithological field work.<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<!--more-->\n\n  <div class=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color:rgb(34, 34, 34)\">D<\/span><span style=\"color:rgb(67, 69, 71)\">uring this first 2025 banding day, undergraduates Maya Xu and Marty Freeland got the full field experience with Science Director Katie LaBarbera, hiking through deep mud underneath branches just starting to leaf out but already full of birdsong. In addition, this\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color:rgb(34, 34, 34)\">young male Oregon Junco (pictured below) was among the first birds\u00a0of the year banded at the site.<\/span><\/div> <div> <figure class=\"wp-block-gallery wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sfbbo-test.twomoons.systems\/staging\/1924\/wp-content\/uploads\/weebly-migration\/jrbp-maya-marty-02-2025.jpg?ssl=1\"\/><\/figure><figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sfbbo-test.twomoons.systems\/staging\/1924\/wp-content\/uploads\/weebly-migration\/orju-m-jrbp-2-2025b.jpg?ssl=1\"\/><\/figure><\/figure>\n<\/div> <div class=\"paragraph\"><em><span style=\"color:rgb(34, 34, 34)\">Katie LaBarbara is a science director at SFBBO who specializes in landbird research and conservation. One of their primary responsibilities at SFBBO is managing the long-running bird banding program at Coyote Creek Field Station. Katie received a Ph.D. in Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley, studying life history variation in Dark-eyed Juncos in the Sierra Nevada mountains. 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