Bicknell's Thrush (chick)
Catharus bicknelli
Mt. Mitchell, Christmas Mountains, New Brunswick
6 July 2010
During the summer of 2010, I spent a few months in New Brunswick assisting a Bicknell's thrush research program with the University of New Brunswick. Part of that research included nest-searching and the video surveillance of any such nests we found. On Mt. Mitchell we discovered two Bicknell's thrush nests - sadly one was depredated and the single chick was lost, but the second nest contained four chicks which all successfully fledged.
Here I am holding chick #2291-38986 (we identify the chicks by their band numbers, since they are nearly identical visually and are too young to receive the colour bands which we use to identify the adults). He or she is waiting its turn to be weighed; we cannot determine sex until the following year, when the birds reach maturity.
