Subject: Junco banding recovery
Date: Oct 3 18:59:59 1998
From: Russell Rogers - rrogers at halcyon.com


Greetings,

Banders live for recovering a banded bird from somewhere else. This
recovery is the type that I always hoped would happen but never thought
would actually happen.

On 9/10/98 I was clearing net lanes at Glacial Heritage. I left the nets
open as I went in case I might catch anything. It was in the afternoon and
I really did not expect to catch anything. At 3:00 PM I caught a hatch
year female Oregon Junco. I banded it with band number 1551-20361. I
released it there. It was the only bird that I caught that day.

On 9/24/98, 14 days later, I opened my traps at my yard in Tumwater. At
3:30 PM I caught 1551-20361 again! My house is about 11 miles away from
Glacial Heritage as the Junco flies.

At the time I recaptured the bird I did not realize it was a bird that I
banded at Glacial Heritage, I only knew that it was a band number from my
string of bands. It was not until today when I was logging data into my
database that I noticed that the bird was banded at a different location.
I checked and double checked my records to make sure that I did not make a
record keeping error and it appears that I did not.

Pretty neat I thought.

Russell

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Olympia WA 98512
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