Bird bands - Who Finds Them?
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I have found two this year while out and about which is about what I average. Does anyone else come across them?
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Re: Bird bands - Who Finds Them?
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That's way cool. In past years I have put out thousands, but rarely do I find dead ones. I assume you report all those?
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About 25 years ago, a decomposed raptor carcass was brought to me by a citizen that found the rotted bird on a private pond dam. It had a large plastic band on its leg. I called and learned that it was an immature bald eagle that was injured, rehabilitated, and released...in Kansas.
It made it to southern Georgia. It was too dry rotted to determine cause of death.
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Re: Bird bands - Who Finds Them?
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I've picked up a couple goose neck bands laying on the shoreline, those things are the kiss of death to a goose..
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I found a banded adult bald eagle laying dead in shallow water of a local lake. Contacted local DNR wildlife biologist and we travelled back to the site to recover the eagle. This was in spring 2006 just after ice out. Biologist called back with exciting news that he himself banded the fledgling eagle in late spring 1975. The biologist had started his job a month or two earlier. (new guy had to climb the tall nest tree to earn their stripes!) He also stated that the eagle was 31 years old when it died which is the oldest aged documented wild eagle in Wisconsin. As a final note, the DNR biologist retired shortly after, completing 31 year career!
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Found two bands on Canada geese washed up on the shores of lake Erie in my life. Both birds had been dead quite some time and half covered with sand
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Grandson shot one in Iowa that was banded eleven years ago in Manitoba,
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Found a goose once that had one, forget the age but it was an older local bird.
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I am pretty sure it was a seagull but a predator had it pretty well gone when I found it. Reporting them electronically is super easy these days. You can even use Google maps to pinpoint exact locations where it was found. It takes about five minutes to do. The one I found earlier this summer was an immature seagull that was banded in Door County and was located in downtown Green Bay.
Last year, I came across a dead Canadian goose that was part of a pair I had been watching for a good decade. They were always hanging out in roughly the same area. I called the tag in and they had been tagged 12 years prior about 16 miles south of Green Bay. The DNR said it was a pretty old bird.
Moral of the story - check those dead birds out.
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Gulls have webbed feet. That does not look webbed to me.
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Good Catch. It is a pigeon band of some sort. They apparently don't keep their data base very exact as the guy I called hasn't been involved for 10 years. He gave me another number to call.
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Bird Band Found metal detectingFound this one 2 years ago while metal detecting and posted it on here. Turned out to be from a wood duck banded in 1983.
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grandson shot one in south Iowa this fall that was attached in Manitoba eleven years ago.
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Ive shot lots of banded ducks and geese. Nothing really unusual. Most either banded on the southern wintering grounds, on Canadian prairies, or on the tundra
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I’ve killed around a dozen banded birds and photographed probably close to a 200 more. Was involved in Piping Plover research for many years and easiest way to read the band was to photograph them. Goose pic all 6 birds are banded.
Funniest band story was in college we found a roadkill Peregrine falcon, took band off and sent it to the bird banding lab (didn’t know to call them in back then) and said we had shot a banded mallard with the enclosed band…..never did hear back which was probably a good thing. wait one moment, how did that Elegant Tern show up....not in SD at least. and yes the leg bands on shorebirds is striking especially when you see one 2500 miles outside of it's range like we did on a Piping plover
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That banded drake spoonie is the Holy Grail of bands !! You’re right about that. Northof50….that’s a Royal Tern from the Florida coast.
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That banded drake spoonie is the Holy Grail of bands !! You’re right about that. Northof50….that’s a Royal Tern from the Florida coast. the gonydeal angle just did not show well.....well time to go to the Baja for it's relative picture another one of Sue Hagues study birds no doubt
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