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I was wondering about some ages on the banded birds that everyone has harvested in the past years.

My youngest son Andy killed a banded canaidian goose in Lauderdale County in Sept. 2000 banded in Louisburg N.C. in 1990.

Greenhead - hatched and banded in 1999 (Alberta), harvested in 2000... 1 year old

Greenhead - banded in 1995 (Ontario), harvested in 2001... 6 years old

Hopefully there will be more to add to this list after this weekend!


MAG

my goose from last year was three.

2, 6, 3, 2, 7, 1, 1, 3, 2, 1, 5, 3, 2, 4, 2, 1,......and so on. [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] '7' is the oldest [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]Duh! [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]....'banded six years earlier, less than 10 miles from where I shot it. Snow Goose taken in Calcasieu Parish in 1979. [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]

[ January 24, 2002: Message edited by: Anatidae ]

I was just wondering. My father and I killed a C'Back last Jan. around Boyle, MS. in a rice field that was 13 years old. The band was very thin at the top and the bottom, also the numbers were almost unrecognizable. Just curious if anyone else had killed a bird of this age. My first band was a greenhead killed around Shellmound Farms and he was nine years of age. Since then the oldest has been two years old. [img]images/smiles/icon_cool.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_cool.gif[/img]

My oldest was 4 years, one was less than a year.

I shot a Mallard a few years ago that had worn his band for a little over nine years. The band was noticably worn thin. But oddly enough, I shot another banded Mallard two seasons later with a band that was in worse shape than the nine year old band. When I saw that, I knew that I had shot Methuselah
(sp?) Turned out, that duck was banded only five years earlier.

My father killed a ringneck a few years back. Oddly enough, he did not want to claim it until I showed him the band, which was so worn that the numbers and letters were completely gone. No telling how old the duck was...

Lodi killed a mallard in 1996 that banded in 1984.

You fellas that have bands that the numbers aren't legible.....send them to the Bird Banding Lab at Laurel, MD. They can retrieve the number by etching the band and they will return it to you. They do many of these a year. It's important to provide the recovery data for your birds. It'll also be interesting to determine how old the band is and from where it originated. Let us know when you get the certificate back. For more information on Bird Banding visitPWRC.NBS.GOV

Canada goose..banded 9 years prior...was at least one year old when banded.