1-11 SS Bird Banding 2

 Duck and geese hunters, you might be shooting banded birds. I’m DS

Yesterday, we learned why birds are banded by the US and Canadian wildlife officials but listen to this. The federal bird banding research program banded 222,000 ducks of which 50,000 were recovered, and banded 132,000 geese; with 40,000 recovered. Here’s Bruce Peterjohn of the USGS Bird Banding Laboratory in Laurel, MD

One season Don Davidson  of Klamath Falls, OR bagged a reward-banded mallard drake. Ironically, it was banded near Lake Klamath, California, and shot in Klamath Falls, Oregon. Maybe the duck got lost and misread the signs.