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Posted by Cynthia Guerra on 18:49:09 10/30/06
Patuxent Wildlife Resarch Center Bird Banding Lab can't help me with a banded bird (read below) and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources 'e-mail us' web link isn't working.
Any suggestions on who to report this to?
From: "Cynthia Guerra"
Sent: 10/27/2006 05:56 PM
To: bandreports@patuxent.usgs.gov
Subject: Aluminum Bird Band Recovered
Greetings:
A member of our Audubon chapter gave me an aluminum bird band recovered off a dead bird (probably a heron or egret) found on a Biscayne Bay shoreline on Virginia Key, which is between the City of Miami and Key Biscayne in South Florida. I tried to use your on-line form, but since the band is alpha-numeric, it instructed me to send an e-mail instead. I have not seen
the bird, I understand it was found intact except it was missing the head - the band was cut off and given to me. The description made it sound like a heron or egret. I am expecting a digital picture from the person that gave me the band yesterday when the bird was recovered, but I haven't yet
received the photo.
The band number is GA H649706.
Can you please provide info about the bird?
Thanks,
Cynthia
From : Wendy R Manear
Sent : Monday, October 30, 2006 2:37 PM
To : "Cynthia Guerra"
Subject : Re: Aluminum Bird Band Recovered
I can not give you any information as this does not look like it is a Federal band. Our bands have a 3 or 4 digit prefix a dash followed by a 5 digit suffix. Could the GA stand for Georgia?
Thanks,
Wendy Manear
Recovery Processing Supervisor
USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
Wendy_Manear@usgs.gov
(W) 301-497-5940
( F ) 301-497-5717
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