Bird band update: received Certificate of appreciation for reporting the band...

[lorraine]

Don't know if anyone is interested in this topic, but if anyone is:


This is the 2nd certificate issued to me for reporting a recovered bird band.

The bird was just a baby when it was banded.

Here's a pic with information re : species, location, etc.

 

[arnofarrell]

That is very intersting. I assume you found them detecting? The reason I say that is because gulls are not typically hunted. I have called in a few for duck hunting and I know a few other guys who have found geese with tags. Cool find.

 

[lorraine]

Yes, I found both bands at beaches out at low tide.

Lorraine

 

[bigred7469]

Very cool!!

 

[pat-tekker-cat]

Thank you for calling in the band #'s, and I am glad they sent you acknowledgement.

My best friends' dad raises racing pigeons. Sometimes, one or more do not return home, and he waits and waits, for a call from the club. Usually, the call never comes. By at least reporting these band #'s, it is a way that the owner of the bird, can "let the bird go", so to speak, and not just keep wondering. Thank you, again.



These little fellas really "strut' there stuffs, with their little feather covered feets! LOL!

 

[lorraine]

"Thank you for calling in the band #'s, and I am glad they sent you acknowledgement.

My best friends' dad raises racing pigeons. Sometimes, one or more do not return home, and he waits and waits, for a call from the club. Usually, the call never comes. By at least reporting these band #'s, it is a way that the owner of the bird, can "let the bird go", so to speak, and not just keep wondering. Thank you, again."

pat-tekker-cat,

Thank you for the photos and for your insight regarding bird bands.

Those racing pigeons are beautiful birds; my brother-in-law raised "homer pigeons" long ago, and would put bands on them.

Lorraine

 

[Terry Soloman]

Very cool! Congratulations!!!

 

[OBN]

Very good deed and interesting results. ...enjoy see history behind finds........

 

[TooManyHobbies]

Cool, I didn't know they banded gulls.

 

[DrJoePrime]

That's a very interesting aspect of this hobby.

I suspect the gull was probably a rescue that was released. The marine rescue facility here knows me on a first name basis. I've cut my detecting short a number of times to bring in pelicans twice with broken wings, a baby tern with an injured wing, and baby night herons twice (fell out of their nests) ... in the last year.

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[seeker41]

they got the info fight on this one, less details I remember your last one.