What is this?

[timbertalk]

Had a guest at our camp kill this mallard hen this weekend. Banded in Maryland. We have called it in but they have not gotten back to us yet. We think this may be a gps transmitter, but we really have no idea. Any of you ever seen anything like this?

[DukGrl]

I'm pretty sure that's not a GPS transmitter but instead an identification tag called nasal disks... As in you band ducks but then you want to be able to tell them apart from a distance so you band them with different combinations of shapes and colors so you can tell individual birds apart.

[deltadukman]

Was it banded in Laurel, Maryland by chance?

[timbertalk]

yes it was

[DUCKAHOLIC]

[deadbird05]

I will let you in on a little secret. The band doesn't actually say where it came from. All the federal bands are made in Laurel, MD or at least the ones I have seen. The only way to find out where it was banded at is to wait to get your certificate back or to get online and look it up. I don't know the website off the top of my head but someone will post it. Get ready for a bashing but it is an honest mistake.

[timbertalk]

I can take the bashing. I just want to know what this thing is through her nose?

[QUACKERS]

click on the link and report by internet and it will email you the band info.


http://myfwc.com/recreation/Duck_Hunt_duckband.htm

[mossyisland]

It is a nasal band or nasal saddle as stated above. Just another way of tracking birds from certain spots.

[quack_a_tack]

Just a nose piercing.

[driveby]

Dang kids these days and their nose piercings!!!! I'll bet that hen had a tat right above her tail feathers too.

[dliggett]

[timbertalk]

no serial numbers that I am aware of

[RLJames]

Are you going to put the gps tracker on your lanyard ?

[River Hunter]