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Trainee Bander's Diary (PDF Trainee Banders Diary Extracted Handled Band Capture Supervising A-Class Species banded Banded Retraps Species Groups Location & Date Notes Only Only Size/Type Techniques Bander Totals Include name and Use CAVS & Common Name e.g. Large Passerines, e.g. 01AY, e.g. Mist-net, Date Location Locode Banding Authority Additional information e.g. 529: Superb Fairy-wren Shorebirds 09SS Hand Capture number Reference Lists 05 SS 10 AM 06 SS 11 AM Species Groups 07 SS 1 (BAT) Small Passerines 08 SS 2 (BAT) Large Passerines 09 SS 3 (BAT) Seabirds 10 SS Shorebirds 11 SS Species Parrots and Cockatoos 12 SS 6: Orange-footed Scrubfowl Gulls and Terns 13 SS 7: Malleefowl Pigeons and Doves 14 SS 8: Australian Brush-turkey Raptors 15 SS 9: Stubble Quail Waterbirds 16 SS 10: Brown Quail Fruit bats 17 SS 11: Tasmanian Quail Ordinary bats 20 SS 12: King Quail Other 21 SS 13: Red-backed Button-quail 22 SS 14: Painted Button-quail Trapping Methods 23 SS 15: Chestnut-backed Button-quail Mist-net 24 SS 16: Buff-breasted Button-quail By Hand 25 SS 17: Black-breasted Button-quail Hand-held Net 27 SS 18: Little Button-quail Cannon-net 28 SS 19: Red-chested Button-quail Cage Trap 31 SS 20: Plains-wanderer Funnel Trap 32 SS 21: Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove Clap Trap 33 SS 23: Superb Fruit-Dove Bal-chatri 34 SS 24: Banded Fruit-Dove Noose Carpet 35 SS 25: Wompoo Fruit-Dove Phutt-net 36 SS 26: Pied Imperial-Pigeon Rehabiliated 37 SS 27: Topknot Pigeon Harp trap 38 SS 28: White-headed Pigeon 39 SS 29: Brown Cuckoo-Dove Band Size 03 IN 30: Peaceful Dove 01 AY 04 IN 31: Diamond Dove 02 AY 05 IN 32: Bar-shouldered Dove 03 AY 06 IN 33: Emerald Dove 04 AY 07 IN 34: Common Bronzewing 05 AY 07 AM 35: Brush Bronzewing 06 AY 08 AM 36: Flock Bronzewing K AY 09 AM 04 SS 37: White-quilled Rock-Pigeon 38: Chestnut-quilled Rock-Pigeon 78: Gould's Petrel 118: Fairy Tern 39: Squatter Pigeon 80: Cape Petrel 119: Black-naped Tern 40: Partridge Pigeon 81: Blue Petrel 120: Sooty Tern 42: Spinifex Pigeon 82: Broad-billed Prion 121: Bridled Tern 43: Crested Pigeon 83: Fairy Prion 122: Common Noddy 44: Wonga Pigeon 84: Antarctic Prion 123: Lesser Noddy 45: Lewin's Rail 85: Common Diving-Petrel 124: Black Noddy 46: Buff-banded Rail 86: Wandering Albatross 125: Silver Gull 47: Chestnut Rail 88: Black-browed Albatross 126: Pacific Gull 48: Red-necked Crake 89: Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross 127: Brown Skua 49: Australian Spotted Crake 90: Grey-headed Albatross 128: Arctic Jaeger 50: Baillon's Crake 91: Shy Albatross 129: Ruddy Turnstone 51: Spotless Crake 92: Sooty Albatross 130: Pied Oystercatcher 52: White-browed Crake 93: Light-mantled Albatross 131: Sooty Oystercatcher 53: Pale-vented Bush-hen 94: Great Frigatebird 132: Red-kneed Dotterel 54: Tasmanian Native-Hen 95: Lesser Frigatebird 133: Masked Lapwing 55: Black-tailed Native-hen 96: Great Cormorant 135: Banded Lapwing 56: Dusky Moorhen 97: Little Black Cormorant 136: Grey Plover 58: Purple Swamphen 98: Black-faced Cormorant 137: Pacific Golden Plover 59: Eurasian Coot 99: Pied Cormorant 138: Hooded Plover 60: Great Crested Grebe 100: Little Pied Cormorant 139: Lesser Sand Plover 61: Australasian Grebe 101: Australasian Darter 140: Double-banded Plover 62: Hoary-headed Grebe 102: Brown Booby 141: Greater Sand Plover 63: Wilson's Storm-Petrel 103: Red-footed Booby 142: Oriental Plover 64: Grey-backed Storm-Petrel 104: Australasian Gannet 143: Red-capped Plover 65: White-faced Storm-Petrel 105: Masked Booby 144: Black-fronted Dotterel 66: Black-bellied Storm-Petrel 106: Australian Pelican 145: Inland Dotterel 67: Little Shearwater 107: Red-tailed Tropicbird 146: Black-winged Stilt 68: Fluttering Shearwater 108: White-tailed Tropicbird 147: Banded Stilt 69: Wedge-tailed Shearwater 109: White-winged Black Tern 148: Red-necked Avocet 70: Sooty Shearwater 110: Whiskered Tern 149: Far Eastern Curlew 71: Short-tailed Shearwater 111: Gull-billed Tern 150: Whimbrel 72: Flesh-footed Shearwater 112: Caspian Tern 151: Little Curlew 73: Grey Petrel 113: Roseate Tern 152: Black-tailed Godwit 74: Southern Fulmar 114: White-fronted Tern 153: Bar-tailed Godwit 75: Great-winged Petrel 115: Crested Tern 154: Wood Sandpiper 76: Soft-plumaged Petrel 116: Lesser Crested Tern 155: Grey-tailed Tattler 77: White-headed Petrel 117: Little Tern 156: Wandering Tattler 157: Common Sandpiper 196: Black Bittern 234: Pacific Baza 158: Common Greenshank 197: Australasian Bittern 235: Australian Hobby 159: Marsh Sandpiper 198: Cape Barren Goose 236: Grey Falcon 160: Terek Sandpiper 199: Magpie Goose 237: Peregrine Falcon 161: Curlew Sandpiper 200: Cotton Pygmy-goose 238: Black Falcon 162: Red-necked Stint 201: Green Pygmy-goose 239: Brown Falcon 163: Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 202: Australian Wood Duck 240: Nankeen Kestrel 164: Red Knot 203: Black Swan 241: Eastern Osprey 165: Great Knot 204: Wandering Whistling-Duck 242: Southern Boobook 166: Sanderling 205: Plumed Whistling-Duck 246: Barking Owl 167: Broad-billed Sandpiper 206: Radjah Shelduck 247: Rufous Owl 168: Latham's Snipe 207: Australian Shelduck 248: Powerful Owl 169: Swinhoe's Snipe 208: Pacific Black Duck 249: Eastern Barn Owl 170: Australian Painted Snipe 209: Garganey 250: Masked Owl 171: Comb-crested Jacana 210: Chestnut Teal 251: Tasmanian Masked Owl 172: Oriental Pratincole 211: Grey Teal 252: Eastern Grass Owl 173: Australian Pratincole 212: Australasian Shoveler 253: Sooty Owl 174: Bush Stone-curlew 213: Pink-eared Duck 254: Rainbow Lorikeet 175: Beach Stone-curlew 214: Freckled Duck 256: Scaly-breasted Lorikeet 176: Australian Bustard 215: Hardhead 257: Varied Lorikeet 177: Brolga 216: Blue-billed Duck 258: Musk Lorikeet 178: Glossy Ibis 217: Musk Duck 259: Purple-crowned Lorikeet 179: Australian White Ibis 218: Spotted Harrier 260: Little Lorikeet 180: Straw-necked Ibis 219: Swamp Harrier 261: Double-eyed Fig-Parrot 181: Royal Spoonbill 220: Grey Goshawk 263: Palm Cockatoo 182: Yellow-billed Spoonbill 221: Brown Goshawk 264: Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo 183: Black-necked Stork 222: Collared Sparrowhawk 265: Glossy Black-Cockatoo 184: Great-billed Heron 223: Red Goshawk 267: Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo 185: Little Egret 224: Wedge-tailed Eagle 268: Gang-gang Cockatoo 186: Intermediate Egret 225: Little Eagle 269: Sulphur-crested Cockatoo 187: Eastern Great Egret 226: White-bellied Sea-Eagle 270: Major Mitchell's Cockatoo 188: White-faced Heron 227: Brahminy Kite 271: Little Corella 189: White-necked Heron 228: Whistling Kite 272: Long-billed Corella 190: Pied Heron 229: Black Kite 273: Galah 191: Eastern Reef Egret 230: Square-tailed Kite 274: Cockatiel 192: Nankeen Night Heron 231: Black-breasted Buzzard 275: Eclectus Parrot 193: Striated Heron 232: Black-shouldered Kite 276: Red-cheeked Parrot 195: Australian Little Bittern 233: Letter-winged Kite 277: Superb Parrot 278: Regent Parrot 321: Yellow-billed Kingfisher 359: Tree Martin 279: Princess Parrot 322: Laughing Kookaburra 360: Fairy Martin 280: Red-winged Parrot 323: Blue-winged Kookaburra 361: Grey Fantail 281: Australian King Parrot 324: Forest Kingfisher 362: Rufous Fantail 282: Crimson Rosella 325: Red-backed Kingfisher 363: Northern Fantail 284: Yellow Rosella 326: Sacred Kingfisher 364: Willie Wagtail 285: Green Rosella 327: Collared Kingfisher 365: Leaden Flycatcher 286: Pale-headed Rosella 328: Buff-breasted Paradise-Kingfisher 366: Satin Flycatcher 287: Northern Rosella 329: Rainbow Bee-eater 367: Broad-billed Flycatcher 288: Eastern Rosella 330: White-throated Nightjar 368: Yellow-breasted Boatbill 289: Western Rosella 331: Spotted Nightjar 370: Pied Monarch 290: Red-capped Parrot 332: Large-tailed Nightjar 371: Frill-necked Monarch 294: Australian Ringneck 333: Australian Swiftlet 372: Shining Flycatcher 295: Red-rumped Parrot 334: White-throated Needletail 373: Black-faced Monarch 296: Mulga Parrot 335: Fork-tailed Swift 374: Black-winged Monarch 297: Blue Bonnet 336: Oriental Cuckoo 375: Spectacled Monarch 298: Naretha Parrot 337: Pallid Cuckoo 376: White-eared Monarch 300: Golden-shouldered Parrot 338: Fan-tailed Cuckoo 377: Jacky Winter 301: Hooded Parrot 339: Brush Cuckoo 379: Lemon-bellied Flycatcher 302: Turquoise Parrot 340: Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo 380: Scarlet Robin 303: Scarlet-chested Parrot 341: Black-eared Cuckoo 381: Red-capped Robin 304: Bourke's Parrot 342: Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo 382: Flame Robin 305: Orange-bellied Parrot 344: Shining Bronze-Cuckoo 383: Pink Robin 306: Blue-winged Parrot 345: Little Bronze-Cuckoo 384: Rose Robin 307: Elegant Parrot 346: Gould's Bronze Cuckoo 385: Hooded Robin 308: Rock Parrot 347: Eastern Koel 386: Dusky Robin 309: Swift Parrot 348: Channel-billed Cuckoo 387: White-breasted Robin 310: Budgerigar 349: Pheasant Coucal 388: Mangrove Robin 311: Eastern Ground Parrot 350: Superb Lyrebird 389: Grey-headed Robin 312: Night Parrot 351: Albert's Lyrebird 390: White-browed Robin 313: Tawny Frogmouth 352: Noisy Pitta 391: Buff-sided Robin 314: Marbled Frogmouth 353: Red-bellied Pitta 392: Eastern Yellow Robin 316: Papuan Frogmouth 354: Rainbow Pitta 394: Western Yellow Robin 317: Australian Owlet-nightjar 355: Rufous Scrub-bird 395: Yellow-legged Flycatcher 318: Dollarbird 356: Noisy Scrub-bird 396: Pale-yellow Robin 319: Azure Kingfisher 357: Welcome Swallow 397: White-faced Robin 320: Little Kingfisher 358: White-backed Swallow 398: Golden Whistler 400: Mangrove Golden Whistler 451: Yellow Chat 504: Speckled Warbler 401: Rufous Whistler 452: Gibberbird 505: Rockwarbler 402: Red-lored Whistler 453: White-throated Gerygone 506: Pilotbird 403: Gilbert's Whistler 454: Brown Gerygone 507:
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