On 7 Jan 1997, Larry Cowan wrote:

> Tweeters
>
> Anyone know the e-mail address for the Fish & Wildlife in Wash. D.C.
>
> A band has been recovered from a dead Great Blue Heron in a Port Coquitlam, B.C.
> neighborhood.
>
> The band number was "66784994" and asked to advise F&W in Washington.
>

Larry,

I saved this message from about two years ago:

Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 12:23:08 MST
From: Mary Gustafson <gustafsonme at MAIL.FWS.GOV>

The Bird Banding Laboratory can now be reached through e-mail as well
as snail mail, phone, and FAX. Banders can conduct most of their
business with the lab by e-mail, and others may report bands and
observations of marked birds (collars, color bands, etc.) through this
address. Please use the subject line to indicate the subject of your
message (ie, goose collar sighting, marked swan, band recovery, etc),
and for recoveries include your home name and address, date and exact
location of recovery, species, and band number or color marker(s).

Mary Gustafson
Biologist, BBL

National Biological Service
Bird Banding Laboratory
12100 Beech Forest Road
Laurel MD 20708-4037
301-497-5790
FAX 301-497-5784

The phone number and snail mail address should still work, but I have a
more recent e-mail address for Mary Gustafson: Mary_Gustafson at nbs.gov
Try that one first.


Chris Hill
Everett, WA
cehill at u.washington.edu