BIRD BAND UPDATE!!!!!

[jim tn]

Some of you may remember I recently found a small bird band with the LTD while doing some relic/coin hunting. Well, I finally got around to locating the Govt. bird band site and entered all the info they wanted/required and got an immediate response.

The bird species was a blue jay.
It was banded 1/15/87.
Banding location, Memphis Tn
Hatched, 1986 or earlier.

Now, that is one bird band number after 25 years that is now accounted for.

HH jim tn

 

[Elton]

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[jim tn]

I knew about duck banding, but I guess they must band all migratory birds for potential tracking and age at their death. I've killed ducks in Tn and Ark that were banded in North Dak and three different Canadian Providences back in the years when I was duck hunting. HH jim tn

 

[Elton]

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[tvr]

Do a search on "bird banding laboratory" and you will get plenty to read. Birds from humming birds to trumpeter swans and eagles can get banded.

Was kind of wondering what the bird band was from. Pretty neat you found a blue jay band; not a huge number of them get banded. A quick look at the data, 115 were banded in Tennessee in 1987 and only two encounters have been reported from that group. Encounter could mean finding a live bird with a band or reporting a band as found.

Sometimes I have to wonder if the money spent to run these programs are worth it; even with a lot of the time given by volunteers. One of the guys I work with has been doing frog and toad surveys for about 20 years. He goes into the woods and listens for calls. He spends a lot of time listening to recordings to calibrate his ear and then sits for dozens of evenings a year listening and recording the species he hears and approximates how many of each croak he hears in each hour. His efforts and that of many others is all volunteer and provides estimated records of populations and where they are. Without sufficient data samples over long periods of time, trend analysis is useless or badly skewed; and we all know how politics likes skewed trend data!

Again, an interesting find!
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[jim tn]

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[John in Nawth Carolina]

and I immediately knew which bird it came off of. It had a bird attached to it.

 

[jim tn]

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[John in Nawth Carolina]

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[Waterman]

http://www.reportband.gov/

 

[jim tn]

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[lurksalot]

were playing " Rockin Robin."

 

[jim tn]

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[lurksalot]

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