[Birdtalk] Snow Geese tagged with neck collars

[Cliff and Lisa Weisse]

Eric,

The band should be reported to Patuxent Bird Banding Lab.  I just tried 
to find the page and got the same error messages you did.  It's probably 
a server problem as I doubt that site will disappear.  Try again another 
day and see if they've fixed the problem.  For what it's worth, I saw 
two banded Snow Geese last spring and reported the collar numbers to 
Patuxent.  Both birds were Lesser Snow Geese, the expected race, and 
both were banded in Northern Canada.  I didn't keep my notes but I think 
one had a black band.  The report for the one with only letters in the 
band "number" was banded in Nunavut, the other at Banks Island, 
Northwest Territories. 

I just noticed that there's a phone number for reporting bands on the 
report they send out, 1-800-327-BAND.

Cliff

Eric Huish wrote:
>
> OK. I've searched the web for a place to report banded/collard birds 
> and every link I get is dead.  I even searched the USGS site, were 
> most of my other searches appeared to lead, and their links wouldn't 
> come up.  Even their frequently asked questions had a link that went 
> nowhere. (I may just be a poor surfer)
>
> So I guess I'll just report them here.  Yesterday, March 3, 2007, in 
> Delta we saw two collard Snow Geese.  The collars were black with 
> white letters.  Both collars had a large upright letter 'C' then 2 
> smaller letters written sideways one on top of the other.  They were 
> 'LA' on one goose and I believe 'RH' on the other.
>
> If anyone knows the proper way to report these please let me know so I 
> can fix the links on the utahbirds.org website.  Thanks.
>
> (I know this has been asked on this list before, sorry)
>
>
>
> Eric Huish
> Pleasant Grove UT
> poorwill_ at hotmail.com
> 801-360-8777
>
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Cliff and Lisa Weisse
October Setters
Island Park, Idaho
CliffandLisa at OctoberSetters.com