Japan Band?

[gaddy]

keep us posted. very interesting.

[MtnMuley]

Very cool

[LndShrk]

Here is a link for you..

http://www.yamashina.or.jp/hp/english/banding/birds_rings.html#br07

I know someone that can help with getting you the information off of it.

[Wea300mag]

That's awesome, now go buy a lotto ticket.

[MC37493]

Thanks Pd and Lndshark for the link to send them the info that is what i was hoping someone could help me out with clicked on the page originally and didnt see the english button lol.
Here is the reply from the email they sent me
BANDED DATE　　　21 Dec. 2011
 BANDED PLACE     Saitama Duck Refuge, Obayashi, Koshigaya, Saitama pref., JAPAN
 BANDED COORD.    35.54 N   139.47 E
 BANDED DETAILS   Anas acuta, Male, Age was unknown.

[whacker1]

very cool information

[LndShrk]

Thanks Pd and Lndshark for the link to send them the info that is what i was hoping someone could help me out with clicked on the page originally and didnt see the english button lol.
Here is the reply from the email they sent me
BANDED DATE　　　21 Dec. 2011
 BANDED PLACE     Saitama Duck Refuge, Obayashi, Koshigaya, Saitama pref., JAPAN
 BANDED COORD.    35.54 N   139.47 E
 BANDED DETAILS   Anas acuta, Male, Age was unknown.

Mind sharing whereabouts in the state did you take it? East vs West.. Don't need specifics. Just curious

[boneaddict]

   Thats beyond neat!

[ducksdogsdownriggers]

Thanks Pd and Lndshark for the link to send them the info that is what i was hoping someone could help me out with clicked on the page originally and didnt see the english button lol.
Here is the reply from the email they sent me
BANDED DATE　　　21 Dec. 2011
 BANDED PLACE     Saitama Duck Refuge, Obayashi, Koshigaya, Saitama pref., JAPAN
 BANDED COORD.    35.54 N   139.47 E
 BANDED DETAILS   Anas acuta, Male, Age was unknown.

Very, very cool!  Thanks for sharing.

[hntrspud]

Thanks for sharing such a once in a lifetime band, and congrats Matt!! I have yet to get a band, let alone one from Japan. Truly incredible. 

[TheHunt]

WOW, that is really impressive... What a find.

[pianoman9701]

Shot this off of a drake pinny last day of the season i tried reporting it and they said it is not there format and they gave me a number where i left a voicemail at. The band says KANKYOSHO TOKYO JAPAN, Could this pinny be from japan?

PM sent to you.  This bird is part of a research project, and the Japanese government (environmental agency) would like to record the data.  I can help you.

Please tell us more PD.

[pd]

Shot this off of a drake pinny last day of the season i tried reporting it and they said it is not there format and they gave me a number where i left a voicemail at. The band says KANKYOSHO TOKYO JAPAN, Could this pinny be from japan?

PM sent to you.  This bird is part of a research project, and the Japanese government (environmental agency) would like to record the data.  I can help you.

Please tell us more PD.

Pianoman,

The Japanese government has been banding birds since 1924, and the environmental agency (equivalent to our EPA, but toothless) is currently in charge.  They publish an annual report on banding, which can be found here (much of it in English):
http://www.biodic.go.jp/banding/pdf/banding_h24.pdf
There is an interesting chart (V-3-1), which shows the longevity records for banded/captured birds--the record is for a Storm Petrel, which was captured 30 years after banding.

The agency's website has an interesting page devoted to tracking Pintails:
http://www.env.go.jp/nature/dobutsu/bird_flu/migratory/dabbler.html
Look at the Google map results for migrating Pintails from the Saitama release site, the blue map, Slide 2.

You can see the majority of Pintails migrate to the summertime breeding grounds in far eastern Siberia (Russia), including Kamchatka.  The tracking records do not show Pintails moving to the Alaskan mainland.  Yet the bird in question here clearly made its way clockwise up to Alaska, spent the summer there, and upon returning to the warmer wintering grounds made a left turn when he should have turned right, and came down the eastern Pacific coastline to Washington.  Talk about making a wrong turn!

Good on you MC37493  for sharing this data with the agency! 

[pianoman9701]

Thanks pd. That's certainly a once-in-a-lifetime band. Awesome.

[bobcat]

Does anyone know if they hunt ducks in Japan?