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Title: Another First!!
Post by: SquirrelHunter on December 21, 2013, 07:38:10 PM
Went out this morning had a good day and managed my first band, green wing teal hen.
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Post by: Widgeondeke on December 21, 2013, 07:39:37 PM
Congrats  :tup:
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Post by: Brad Harshman on December 21, 2013, 07:40:22 PM
 :tup:
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Post by: waoutdoorsman on December 21, 2013, 07:42:30 PM
Nice work!!!!
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Post by: full choke on December 21, 2013, 07:55:17 PM
Teal bands are the coolest of them all. Congratulations! :tup:
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Post by: sakoshooter on December 21, 2013, 08:56:22 PM
Very cool.
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Post by: WCTaxidermy on December 21, 2013, 09:01:03 PM
Great looking bird, Congrats.
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Post by: BiggLuke on December 21, 2013, 09:14:24 PM
Sweeet
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Post by: Kiltit on December 22, 2013, 06:11:17 AM
Very cool!  Congrats!
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Post by: pianoman9701 on December 22, 2013, 06:20:48 AM
Nice band and teal.
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Post by: h2ofowlr on December 22, 2013, 11:05:12 AM
A nice bird with a bit of luck!
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Post by: SquirrelHunter on December 22, 2013, 11:14:22 AM
Thanks guys, reported it and it said no info available on it. Must be a recent banded bird, band was nice and shiny. Nice find reguardless
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Post by: scottcrb on December 22, 2013, 12:37:34 PM
always a cool find
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Post by: C-Money on December 22, 2013, 01:29:25 PM
All my bands have came from Mallards, Extra cool to get a teal band!! Way to go!
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Post by: hntrspud on December 24, 2013, 09:39:42 AM
Very cool! Let us know what the details of it are, if you choose to find out.  :tup:
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Post by: Atroxus on December 24, 2013, 10:09:00 AM
Congrats!  :tup:
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Post by: Odell on December 24, 2013, 12:06:32 PM
teal band! Thats great man, congrats! :tup:
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Post by: sirfunkeybut on December 24, 2013, 12:25:26 PM
 :tup:  :tup: since I don't hunt ducks much, do you have to turn the bands in? Ive seen a lot of people on here that are excited about shooting banded birds.
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Post by: Bucks2Ducks on December 24, 2013, 12:47:59 PM
Jealous! Never got a banded teal before.
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Post by: PaulM on December 25, 2013, 10:16:45 AM
You should go to this site and fill out the report form online.

 http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/ (http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/)

 They will give you the bird history immediately. I'm surprised nobody here asked you the question yet. Where was the bird from? I shot one last year and the bird was from way north in Alberta. It was 10 years old and flew the migration to Washington 800+ miles( each trip? you count the miles). My buddy and I shot another last weekend that was just a baby born this year and tagged on Sept 1st!!! Only flew 175 miles from BC. Oh well I think its great that they are tracking the ducks and would love to hear where yours was tagged.
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Post by: SquirrelHunter on December 25, 2013, 10:48:08 AM
I went to the website listed on the band as soon as I got home from my hunt and entered the information required for the report, I got this response:

INFORMATION FROM OUR FILES:
Banding information for the reported band is not available because we have not received the data from the bander and we will be contacting them to request it.  If we have questions about your report we will contact you.  Otherwise, if you requested a Certificate of Appreciation, we will send it to you when the banding data are received. Please do not report the band again.  If you have any questions, please email us at bandreports@usgs.gov

So Im stuck waiting for further information
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Post by: TheSkyBuster on December 25, 2013, 11:03:54 AM
the website listed on the band



That should tell you it is a recent banding right there. 
 So Far I've got 1 band with a Web Address on it. (www.reportband.gov (http://www.reportband.gov))  Banded in 2011...  all the others have read "call 1-800-327-band".  I don't know exactly when they switched to web address' but it has been in the last couple years. 
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Post by: SquirrelHunter on December 25, 2013, 11:19:56 AM
I figured it was a more recently banded bird due to the fact the band looks brand new, nice and shiny silver as well.
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Post by: 270Shooter on December 25, 2013, 01:39:23 PM
I went to the website listed on the band as soon as I got home from my hunt and entered the information required for the report, I got this response:

INFORMATION FROM OUR FILES:
Banding information for the reported band is not available because we have not received the data from the bander and we will be contacting them to request it.  If we have questions about your report we will contact you.  Otherwise, if you requested a Certificate of Appreciation, we will send it to you when the banding data are received. Please do not report the band again.  If you have any questions, please email us at bandreports@usgs.gov

So Im stuck waiting for further information
That is pretty common to see in birds banded on the yakima reservation
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Post by: SquirrelHunter on April 08, 2014, 08:10:07 AM
Finally got the information back on the band.

Banding Data Band Number 0914-622960      8/11/2013
Species GREEN-WINGED TEAL
Age of Bird HATCHED IN 2012 OR EARLIER     
8 MILES EAST OF HUSLIA, YUKON-KOYUKUK CENSUS AREA, ALASKA, USA Location
Encountered 21/21/2013
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Post by: REHJWA on April 09, 2014, 11:54:56 PM
Congratulations :tup: Glad they got back to you.
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Post by: WCTaxidermy on April 24, 2014, 08:26:42 PM
Thats cool.  Always interesting where the birds were banded at.
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