Date: 4/19/25 12:25 pm From: <bluebird6771...> <000056793b0161d0-dmarc-request...> Subject: Old Cardinal
Just received a report from the Bird Banding Office that a male Northern Cardinal that we banded at the Arboretum at Penn State on 10/19/2013 was found along the Bellefonte Rail Trail on 3/29/2025. When banded it was an AHY (after hatching year) bird, so makes it at least 12 years old. Oldest banded NOCA is one banded in PA in1956 and lived to be 15 years 9 months. Nick Kerlin
