Banded Waterfowl

[jerrym]

I have hunted waterfowl for a long time and have 2 goose bands and 5 mallard duck bands. Last band was a drake mallard 3 years ago, that was banded at Benton Lake 5 years earlier. Shot him near there, I always look at the legs but it has been pretty dismay lately for bands.

 

[Bowhuntrben]

I am not a waterfowl hunter, and I have only duck hunted a couple of times when I was at NDSU, so I haven't gotten any banded ducks. I did get some pictures of some banded birds this last winter. Here are "my bands". I have probably put most of these pictures on one of my previous threads, but here they are.

Pair of swans with neck bands

Mallard with band

Another mallard with a band (possibly same one)

Eagle with a band

 

[kansasdad]

I would love to watch an eagle getting banded! Wonder how that is done?

 

[Bowhuntrben]

I would love to watch an eagle getting banded! Wonder how that is done?

Very carefully!
I am not sure. I tried getting information on it, but I never got a response from the DNR. I probably didn't contact the right people.

 

[idnative1948]

Cool! Thanks for the tip...

Native,

If you want some jewelry try the park next to BSU in the evenings.

 

[Bwana]

Shot a banded and collared swan a couple of years ago here in North Dakota that was 9.5 years old and had been banded in Virginia. Thought that was pretty cool and is the only banded waterfowl I have ever shot.

 

[kansasdad]

I would love to watch an eagle getting banded! Wonder how that is done?

Asked and answered: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt68xIB0nIU

Every video I looked at showed eaglets being banded. Wonder how that works for band size as they mature?

 

[RUT JUNKEY]

my best fried killed a banded goose year before last, he called the # and they sent him a certificate with his name on it and told where and when it was banded. . .super cool. We kill a lot of geese every year and this is the only one we have ever gotten. I think a lot of it depends on their migration, guys in the middle of major flyways are obviously going to have a better chance at banded birds. On a side note, we stopped at a Cabelas on the way to Wyoming this year and I bet we saw 30 banded geese on the bank of their pond!!!

 

[TOM IN TENNESSEE]

You can report and get the info on-line now-a-days

My bud (www.smackinquack.com) and I have had some newbie hunters come get their first mallard, Sprig or Teal...couple of times banded birds were put down and soon as we saw the band we started congratulating the newbie on his shot whether or not we thought he actually got it. I have also given my Bud a couple of bands when we both knew I shot the bird because of all his work and effort in getting things ready and calling ability.
I still think it way cool when we get a bird with a band! And yes, the ones I kept are on my lanyard! I got bling!
Oh yeah, I kilt a Bull Sprig in the marshes of SE LA outta of Venice once that had been banded somewhere I don't remember in Saskatchewan 9 years earlier....kept that one!

 

[TOM IN TENNESSEE]

Oh, I forgot about my most unusual band...I was hunting Egyptian and Spur Wing geese with friends in Free State, South Africa when just as we were picking up at dusk, a flight of Yellow Bills swooped in....I got one shot off from my O/U, no one else shot....picked up the Yellow Bill and it was banded! Had that duck mounted and the band is still on him.

 

[HowaHunter]

None in 15 years...

 

[Wally Dog]

My list includes:
BW teal, 2 lesser scaup, redhead, wood duck, 6 mallards (1 with $100 reward band), 7 canadas, merriams turkey, mourning dove and I captured from my Dad's archives a GW teal banded in '58 and a Can banded in '62 and somewhere he'd recovered a band from a white pelican.

 

[jerrym]

My girl brought me back a honker this afternoon with some jewelry on it. I called them and it was banded on June 17, 2009 in Nye County Nevada. I got it in the Bitterroot valley Montana.

On a side note my buddy went to Canada a few weeks ago and got a snow and it was banded on Wrangle Island Russia in 2007. That is pretty cool.

 

[TOM IN TENNESSEE]

That is cool!!!

 

[Slick]

I would love to watch an eagle getting banded! Wonder how that is done?

Volunteering at the Raptor Conservation Center, two golden eagles that live at the wolf and grizz discovery center came in with west nile. They were lure birds that whomever owns them, sends them out and it attracts other goldens and they net them somehow, and get ahold of their wings and their talons most importantly, put gps trackers on 'em and send them out. Pretty neat stuff.

 

[TOM IN TENNESSEE]

So, even tho they taste like chicken, I shud not kill an eagle as GPS will show location.....guess same goes for Whoopers....