Bands

[branter]

Got a Banded Mallard this week, thought it would be interesting to see who has bands and where from. In 54 years of hunting I have gotten 20 banded birds, one was a snowy Owl found dead in a field, it was caught at SeaTac and turned loose in Skagit valley and banded. it was found dead beside a pile of duck feathers,, I think an Eagle took it out. here is a list of bands.
Mallard Drake, banded in Silvana and shot near LaConner 1971
Black Brant, banded near Melville Is. shot in Padilla Bay 1976
Mallard Hen, banded in Sutherland,Neb. shot near LaConner 1976
Black Brant, banded near Melville Is. shot in Padilla Bay 1977
Pintail hen, banded in Grand Prairie Alberta, shot near LaConner 1979
Mallard Drake, banded in Sexsmith Alberta, shot near LaConner 1980
Atlantic Brant, banded near Palmer Point FKLN. shot in Padilla Bay 1983
Mallard Drake,banded in the Columbia NWR, shot near LaConner 1993
Mallard Drake, banded in Seven Persons, Alberta, shot near LaConner 1985
Lesser Snow Goose, banded Wrangell Is. USSR shot near Conway 1999
Lesser Snow Goose,banded Wrangell Is. USSR shot near Conway 1999
Mallard Drake,banded near Bay View, shot near LaConner 2002
Mallard Hen,banded 35 west of Fairbanks AK, shot near LaConner 2005
Lesser Snow Goose, banded on Wrangell Is. USSR shot near Conway 2007
Lesser Snow Goose, banded on Wrangell Is. USR shor near Conway 2008
Snowy Owl, banded in Bow,Wa. found near LaConner 2013
Mallard Drake, banded west of Fairview,Alberta, shot near LaConner 2013
Mallard Drake, banded west of Fairview, Alberta shot near LaConner 2016
Pintail Hen, banded in Blaine Wa. shot near LaConner 2017
Mallard Drake, banded near Peace River Alberta, shot near LaConner 2018

[plugger]

2 this year, one from Alberta, one from Idaho. both killed in grant co.

[mburrows]

Thats pretty cool that you've been able to track when and where.  I've gotten 3 banded ducks, one of them was banded in New York and shot on Potholes. That blew my mind.

Early goose one year we had a group of about 10 guys knock down 17 birds (I think it was 17 +/- a couple) from one flight and they were all banded.  They were banded that year in Moses Lake, not far from where they were all shot.

[Big game archer]

One band for me. Drake mallard shot in 2013 near Moses Lake, banded in Alberta earlier that year.

[h2ofowlr]

Been at this game for 36 years.  I was fortunate to grow up hunting around some good banding sites.  In my teenage years and twenties I would wait for collared birds to come into the spread.  I'm in the mid 70's on bands.  Several from northern territories, several from Alaska.  A dozen or so from Wrangle Island Russia.  A few from California and Idaho.  A majority banded in Oregon and Washington state.  I think my oldest bird that was banded was a snow goose that was about 20 years old.  I would have to pull up all my COA's.

[mburrows]

Been at this game for 36 years.  I was fortunate to grow up hunting around some good banding sites.  In my teenage years and twenties I would wait for collared birds to come into the spread.  I'm in the mid 70's on bands.  Several from northern territories, several from Alaska.  A dozen or so from Wrangle Island Russia.  A few from California and Idaho.  A majority banded in Oregon and Washington state.  I think my oldest bird that was banded was a snow goose that was about 20 years old.  I would have to pull up all my COA's.

20 year old goose!? thats mind blowing.

[h2ofowlr]

Been at this game for 36 years.  I was fortunate to grow up hunting around some good banding sites.  In my teenage years and twenties I would wait for collared birds to come into the spread.  I'm in the mid 70's on bands.  Several from northern territories, several from Alaska.  A dozen or so from Wrangle Island Russia.  A few from California and Idaho.  A majority banded in Oregon and Washington state.  I think my oldest bird that was banded was a snow goose that was about 20 years old.  I would have to pull up all my COA's.

20 year old goose!? thats mind blowing.

My buddies friend shot a banded snow from the Northwest Territories that was banded in 1993.  He shot it Jan. 13, 2019

[vandeman17]

I am only at 5 bands and can't really recall where they are from besides one that was from a mallard banded in New York and was 9 years old.

[HaydenHunter]

All my bands taken in Idaho were banded in Alberta or Idaho except one from Utah.  And one from Westside WA that I took in the Klamath Basin in Oregon.

[crabcreekhunter]

 Have about 20 or so, mostly mallards.  All banded in washington and Alberta, except one this year from Idaho.  Five geese bands have all been banded in coulee city over the course of five years.  All birds shot in moses lake.