Where was the farthest from you banded duck you have gotten? Back in the mid 90’s I shot a pair of mallard drakes in pool 13 of the Mississippi. One of them was banded in Saskatchewan Canada.

When you live where the ducks live and are caught and banded, the ducks you shoot are banded close to where you live. I shot a Mallard drake that was at least 1 year old when banded and I shot it eight years later about 20 miles from where it was banded. Most all the ducks and geese I have shot were banded within 35 miles of where they were banded.

Not a duck, but a goose my buddy killed on the last day of our season here last year.

It was banded in Hoards, Ontario, Canada in 2016 and killed February 2022 in East Central NC. Nearly a 900 mile migration

The other band was from somewhere in Maryland in 2020. Its the only double band I have been part of

I live in south central PA The only banded duck I ever killed was banded in New Jersey .It was a nice fat drake Mallard .I also killed a hen mallard from the same flock of about 6 or 7 ducks .

Shot in South Carolina and the duck was banded in Maryland. Not very far, but it was quite unexpected being a young person.

Here in eastern central Ohio, I shot a triple crown lesser Canada goose. On one leg was a U.S. Fish & Wildlife band, on the other leg was a Jack Miner Bird Sanctuary band, and on the neck was a plastic collar. The US band was from upstate NY. The Miner band was from Ontario. The collar was from the James Bay race of geese up near where Boco lives.

In a cornfield over decoys I shot a banded Mallard from upstate NY.

I have shot many banded geese from about 65 miles away. One goose band was nearly worn through from the inside most likely because of sand getting in between the leg and the band. The leg was fine.

I don't think anyone bands birds locally, only band I personally have was banded in Iowa. We've shot 48 geese this year so far and haven't saw a band, over the past 10 years we've shot probably a couple hundred+ Canadians and only the one band.

Willy was it a neck collar orange = then it came from Churchill Manitoba
was on a botulism pick and there was 150+ bands.......furthest was a pintail from Siberia and one from Iceland, those birds do get around

I shot a couple drake Mallards here in Michigan that were banded out-of-state. One from S.D., the other from the Agassiz Nat'l Refuge in Mn. A hen Woodie banded locally, 8 Canada Geese banded in southern Mi. but released locally after being banded. Another C. Goose I shot by my house that was banded about 110 miles S. and W. of here by a group of DNR folks, one of which was the son of my best friend!

Only shot 2 banded ducks in my life. One mallard drake was banded near Smiley Sask and had the federal band and also a $10 reward band which is green.. the other was Thunder Ck SK also a mallard drake. Both shot in NE Mo

In 1990 I shot a Canada goose in UP Michigan that had been banded 12 years earlier, 1978, in James Bay Ontario. I made soup out of it, cooked it a long time!

I have killed a few banded birds, a green-wing teal, a pintail, a couple of snow geese and the coolest was a drake Canvasback. The band was so worn on the Canvasback that it took them a few days to get back to me as they had to do some digging to find the records with only partial numbers on the band still readable. These were all killed in south-central Nebraska, one came from North Dakota, the rest were banded in Canada but I dont recall the specific locations.

Crazily I have hunted waterfowl since 1984 and never killed a banded bird until the early 2000s and I harvested a lot more birds when I was starting out than I have since the 1st banded one appeared.

Those snow goose band probably came from east of Churchill at La Perouse Bay
https://www.researchgate.net/figure...ng-the-five-regions-where_fig1_255620701
most of the work on habitat damage of snow geese has come from that area and lots of banding of birds.

Never got a banded waterfowl but my youngest son did shoot a few pigeons with his sling shot in the neighbors barn and one had 3 bands. I looked up how to read the letters and found out it was from a club in Oklahoma city 803 miles from home for that racing Homer. The boys cleaned and grilled them and they won't be pooping on the neighbors hay any more.

Providence was that the boys or the pigeons pooping on the neighbors hay anymore.

Lol the kilt pigons no longer defecate in de barn.

only pintail i ever got had a band and it was from Washington state

just another pintail that got around if it was shot in Mich.

at one point there was a blue winged teal bander in Libau Manitoba and recovered in southern Chile and the biologist bander finely became a Bishop of the Church go figure.

Trapstickman almost shot a duck with a band once. He decided the risk just wasn't worth it.

This is the new style of band recovery they have now. Those old neck collars used a lot of man hours looking over flocks to get numbers to track birds. Enter sat data collection. Explained in clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UotynhQXmR4&t=7s