Bird profile [Blueberry]

Year	Bands	Bird	Parentage	Dates	People	Location	Counts	Contact
1987	fws: 877-42529 color: bl 20P L	name: Blueberry gender: f h/w/a: h did bird breed: Y injured:	male: unbanded female: unbanded	hatched: 6/4/1987 banded: fledged: 7/12/1987 deceased: age: 37	breeder: oar bander:	location: Rouchleau Pit Virginia county: St. Louis state: MN type: Cliff	nest years: 6 band years: 2 eggs: 4 fledged: 11 augmented: 0

Trapped and released in Illinois in fall, 1987. Paired with male with green anodized band 816-21835 at Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center, 1990, 4 eggs, 4 hatched, 2 fledged, 2 killed when bottom of box fell out, dropping 3 young onto rocks. In 1991, pair moved to nearby Lake Superior shore, north of Kennedy Creek, ? eggs, 3 young fledged; 1992, same pair in same old raven nest, ? eggs, 3 young fledged. Young not banded in 1991 or 1992. 1993, same pair, same place, failed. 1994, same place, same pair, failed. 1995, same place, same pair, fledged 3 young, mate killed in August by car at Little Marais. 1996, not discovered, but in 1997, at cliff Kennedy Creek South, where also present in 1996, according to local resident, paired with male with red band on right leg, nest not found but behavior suggestive.

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Nesting records [12]

Year	Parent-1	Parent-2	Counts	Contact	Comments
1990	name: Blueberry gender: F breeder: oar fws: 877-42529 color: 20P hatch-year: 1987 hatch-location: Rouchleau Pit Virginia	name: Oly gender: M breeder: jam fws: 816-21835 color: unbanded hatch-year: 1986 hatch-location: Mt. Leaveaux	eggs: 4 hatch date: fledged: 2 augmented: 0		Bottom of nest box fell out when birds being banded, 3 young fell to rocks below, killing 2; 4 eggs, 4 hatched, 2 fledged.
1990	name: Oly gender: M breeder: jam fws: 816-21835 color: unbanded hatch-year: 1986 hatch-location: Mt. Leaveaux	name: Blueberry gender: F breeder: oar fws: 877-42529 color: 20P hatch-year: 1987 hatch-location: Rouchleau Pit Virginia	eggs: 4 hatch date: 5/30/1990 fledged: 2 augmented: 0		4 eggs hatched, 2 young killed in accident at banding.
1991	name: Blueberry gender: F breeder: oar fws: 877-42529 color: 20P hatch-year: 1987 hatch-location: Rouchleau Pit Virginia	name: Oly gender: M breeder: jam fws: 816-21835 color: unbanded hatch-year: 1986 hatch-location: Mt. Leaveaux	eggs: hatch date: fledged: 3 augmented: 0		Back 04/01/91 at ELC, discouraged by nesting pair of ravens, left after about a week, moved to nearby Superior cliff; nested in old raven nest, young not banded.
1991	name: Oly gender: M breeder: jam fws: 816-21835 color: unbanded hatch-year: 1986 hatch-location: Mt. Leaveaux	name: Blueberry gender: F breeder: oar fws: 877-42529 color: 20P hatch-year: 1987 hatch-location: Rouchleau Pit Virginia	eggs: hatch date: fledged: 3 augmented: 0
1992	name: Blueberry gender: F breeder: oar fws: 877-42529 color: 20P hatch-year: 1987 hatch-location: Rouchleau Pit Virginia	name: Oly gender: M breeder: jam fws: 816-21835 color: unbanded hatch-year: 1986 hatch-location: Mt. Leaveaux	eggs: hatch date: fledged: 3 augmented: 0		Same pair, same raven nest, same failure to band young. Rose Welch and Ronnie Cummins keep track of this site.
1992	name: Oly gender: M breeder: jam fws: 816-21835 color: unbanded hatch-year: 1986 hatch-location: Mt. Leaveaux	name: Blueberry gender: F breeder: oar fws: 877-42529 color: 20P hatch-year: 1987 hatch-location: Rouchleau Pit Virginia	eggs: hatch date: fledged: 3 augmented: 0
1993	name: Blueberry gender: F breeder: oar fws: 877-42529 color: 20P hatch-year: 1987 hatch-location: Rouchleau Pit Virginia	name: Oly gender: M breeder: jam fws: 816-21835 color: unbanded hatch-year: 1986 hatch-location: Mt. Leaveaux	eggs: hatch date: fledged: 0 augmented: 0
1993	name: Oly gender: M breeder: jam fws: 816-21835 color: unbanded hatch-year: 1986 hatch-location: Mt. Leaveaux	name: Blueberry gender: F breeder: oar fws: 877-42529 color: 20P hatch-year: 1987 hatch-location: Rouchleau Pit Virginia	eggs: hatch date: fledged: 0 augmented: 0
1994	name: Blueberry gender: F breeder: oar fws: 877-42529 color: 20P hatch-year: 1987 hatch-location: Rouchleau Pit Virginia	name: Oly gender: M breeder: jam fws: 816-21835 color: unbanded hatch-year: 1986 hatch-location: Mt. Leaveaux	eggs: hatch date: fledged: 0 augmented: 0
1994	name: Oly gender: M breeder: jam fws: 816-21835 color: unbanded hatch-year: 1986 hatch-location: Mt. Leaveaux	name: Blueberry gender: F breeder: oar fws: 877-42529 color: 20P hatch-year: 1987 hatch-location: Rouchleau Pit Virginia	eggs: hatch date: fledged: 0 augmented: 0
1995	name: Blueberry gender: F breeder: oar fws: 877-42529 color: 20P hatch-year: 1987 hatch-location: Rouchleau Pit Virginia	name: Oly gender: M breeder: jam fws: 816-21835 color: unbanded hatch-year: 1986 hatch-location: Mt. Leaveaux	eggs: hatch date: 6/14/1995 fledged: 3 augmented: 0
1995	name: Oly gender: M breeder: jam fws: 816-21835 color: unbanded hatch-year: 1986 hatch-location: Mt. Leaveaux	name: Blueberry gender: F breeder: oar fws: 877-42529 color: 20P hatch-year: 1987 hatch-location: Rouchleau Pit Virginia	eggs: hatch date: fledged: 3 augmented: 0

Banding records [5]

Year	Details	Bands	Bird	Parentage	Dates	People	Comments
1990		fws: 1807-29411 color: bl 80V R	name: none gender: F h/w/a: w did bird breed: injured:	male: 816-21835 female: 877-42529	hatched: banded: fledged: deceased: age: - - -	breeder: wpr bander:
1990		fws: 2206-13818 color: bl 92T R	name: none gender: M h/w/a: w did bird breed: injured:	male: 816-21835 female: 877-42529	hatched: banded: fledged: deceased: age: - - -	breeder: wpr bander:
1995		fws: 1807-53853 color: b/r H/*A L	name: Chloe gender: F h/w/a: w did bird breed: Y injured: Unknown	male: 816-21835 female: 877-42529	hatched: 6/14/1995 banded: fledged: 7/26/1995 deceased: age: 29	breeder: wpr bander:	Found near Thunder Bay, Ontario, summer 1996, with broken carpometacarpus; in rehab in Canada.
1995		fws: 1807-53854 color: b/r K/*A L	name: Trevor gender: M h/w/a: w did bird breed: Y injured:	male: 816-21835 female: 877-42529	hatched: 6/14/1995 banded: fledged: 7/26/1995 deceased: age: ?	breeder: wpr bander:	Banded young, sex uncertain. 04/03/98, definitely male, paired and copulating with female 34R at Bong Bridge, Duluth MN, according to Dave Evans, nest failed around June 1; 2005, same place, paired with female 1807-35772, 1 egg, not incubated. 2006: Bong Bridge - new location closer to land on the MN section of land on a beam of the bridge, paired with female *Y/6, 2 males were banded when they landed below the bridge at 30-35 days of age. 1 young found dead on the bridge 7/9/06 by Dave Evans. 2007: same pair, same site. attempted nesting on bridge but pair failed. Pair moved to nearby smokestack but eggs failed to hatch. 2010: new female b/g *R/*U, same site. eggs laid but did not hatch. 2011: same pair, same site, three chicks produced. 2012: same pair, same site, three chicks produced.
1995		fws: 2206-25472 color: b/r M/*5 L	name: Fintan gender: M h/w/a: w did bird breed: injured:	male: 816-21835 female: 877-42529	hatched: 6/14/1995 banded: fledged: 7/26/1995 deceased: age: 29	breeder: wpr bander:	Banded young, sex uncertain.