M. Smith wrote:

> Make sure you record the position of the legs relative to the
> bird, not to you. Also many birds are marked with flags.
> These are bands with a 'tail' that's obviously protruding from
> the band. You can use a lowercase 'f' to indicate a flag (Gf
> = green flag) in the formula above. These generally indicate
> country. Anybody know the colors and what countries they're
> from? I remember finding a SESA in Alaska, with a flag from
> Peru! But I forget the colors now (green = USA).

There is a useful "Shorebird Reporting Primer" with a nice list of
country codes and band reporting protocol in the July 1995 issue of
"Winging It," page 9.

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Joe Morlan
Albany, CA
jmorlan at slip.net