I meant
collared Trumpeter swan
point and shoot camera held up to my spotting scope:
But he did have a leg band also, Jeff Foiles woulda pellet gunned him.
You can't see it in the picture but the collar had yellow vertical lettering that read M 5 0
Has anyone ever reported a collared bird sighting? I'd heard of them but never seen one till this morning, he was out in the field infront of my house so I got online and found the website to report collars is the same as the bird band website.
http://www.reportband.gov/ so it looks like I'm going to get the same certificate as they send you for reporting a leg band. I thought it's kinda cool. so far all I've got is a conformation E-mail but it doesn't tell me anything about the bird other than what I entered.
Kind of Bird: Swan
Marker Reference ID: 6425 (BBL internal sequence number)
Marker Info:
Neck collar: M50 Yellow on Red
How Obtained: Sighting of live bird
Status of Band: Left on Bird
Status of Bird: Alive
We will be able to match the marker to an individual bird (by leg band number), and enter your sighting information into our database, producing a certificate that will give you all the banding information along with your sighting information
Just thought I'd share.
