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Subject: Re: Harlequin, Grebe and other bird banding at SFU
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In addition to the sterling efforts from Simon Frazer University and Dr. Fred
Cooke (a very fascinating and gracious man, in my opinion), Harlequins are
banded throughout the winter and breeding ranges in the U.S. and Canada. Bob
Jarvis has been banding Harlequins on Oregon breeding streams since 1994
(project from which I have many bruised knees and fond memories). Oregon bands
are eiither grey with black alpha-numerics (E2, A9, etc.) read top to bottom,
or red letters on white bands. Greg Schirato has banded many hundereds of
ducks around Sequim and Port Townsend during the molting period. Greg's bands
are black letters on yellow bands. Without going into great depths about other
projects with which I am less familiar, there are banded birds about from
breeding streams in Washington (also Schirato's work), Idaho, Montana,
Wyoming, Alberta, B.C., and Alaska, as well as molting/wintering birds from
B.C. (Ian Goudie and company) and Alaska .

Oregon breeding birds do not appear to molt or winter off the Oregon Coast..
we know that some of "our" breeding birds do molt and/or winter around Sequim
at Protection Island... It's still a mystery where the great majority go... At
least one or two band resightings off the Oregon Coast were of Montana birds
(If I remember correctly)...

I would be happy to recieve reports from Oregon coast sightings of
Harlequins... I have in my possession a database of band numbers and color
schemes, and if I do not have the record at my fingertips, I can usually find
it in a short while...

Steve Dowlan
OWLHOOTER at AOL.COM
Salem


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