ONTARIO NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL COOPERATIVE BANDING PROJECT
STATION REGISTRATION FORM

Please complete as much of this form as possible now and send it to the OBBA Owl Project Coordinator: Christian Friis 3-673 Broadview Ave., Toronto, ON, M4K 2N9 friis.christian@gmail.com  416.461.2137  We may request additional details later. 

Station Coordinator/Manager Contact Information

Name:   
Affiliated Organization: 
Mailing Address:
Preferred E-mail: 
Preferred Phone: (_____) - _____________ 
Best time to phone you (during the day, evenings, weekend):
Name and contact information for the Master Permit holder (federal and provincial) if different from above:   

Station Location Information
Name of Station: 
Station Code (Location code used in Band Manager program):  
Coordinates (degrees, minutes, seconds; as accurate as possible please) 
Latitude: _____ _____ _____ Longitude: _____ _____ _____ 
UTM Coordinates (if available): ZONE  __ __   | EASTING __ __ __ __ __ __ | NORTHING__ __ __ __ __ __ __ 
Nearest Town: ____________________________County: ________________Province: ___ ___ 
Land Ownership:                
Average Altitude (in m): ___________	 
General Habitat Description (e.g., “Mixed woodland in suburbia”; “cottonwood-willow riparian corridor”):  


Station Operation
Number of nets: _________ 
Mesh size of nets:  2 3/8”    1.5”   1.25”   other ____ 
Periods of operation:  Start date: _____ End date: _____.
Number of hours of operation per night: ______ 
Station type (choose one):
        Fully standardized	Partly standardized 	Pilot/experimental	Casual		Other (specify):
          
First year of operation at this site: 
Audio Lure:
Broadcast Equipment:
Station Map:  do you have a sketch map showing the general configuration of your station? 
Written Protocol:  do you have a written protocol describing your station’s operations?

Station Objectives and Activities

Please provide a short description of the current objectives of your owl banding project, and the type of activities involved, (e.g., do you do owl banding demonstrations for groups or the public? Any special research projects? Nestbox monitoring?)

Data Release
I hereby grant permission to the OBBA to use the data I provide for purposes of the NWSO Cooperative Banding Project. Any publications or reports arising from this project will acknowledge the important contribution of the participating stations and banders in collecting and providing the necessary data.  
Please provide the name of the organization or banding group and individual bander(s) to be cited in the acknowledgements of publications. Due to space limitations we can include a maximum of two names per station. However, we would like to include a list of all staff and volunteers for each station in our annual project report.  
All information gather in this document will be used strictly for the purposes of the Cooperative Project. The OBBA does not sell, lend or give out personal information. Your privacy is important to us. If you would not like your Names to be Cited published in the annual report, please check here 

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Signature of Master Permit Holder			Date

Names to be Cited
Organization or Banding Group:

Master Bander:

Assistant Bander(s):







Other volunteers and staff: