Mike Patterson wrote -

>There are still about 1000 small-form CANADA GEESE on Wireless Rd. I
>found three with collars.
> Yellow C.0Z
> H.Z1 (yellow was very faded)
> J.7L
>I think this makes them Cacklers...

These do not match the listing of collar numbers I have for the
Fairbanks area banding project which has been ongoing since
1994. However I am missing the 1998 band numbers. These geese are all
parvipes and taverni which would be noticeably larger than minima
anyway. Collars have black alphanumerics on a white background. Up to
mid 1997, the collars started with a letter, e.g. A29, A30; after
mid-1997, the pattern was reversed, e.g., 06A, 07A.

Just a reminder to all that if they see such Canada Geese,
you can send the numbers to Mike Eichholz at U. of Alaska Fairbanks at
ftmwe at aurora.Alaska.Edu

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Jack Bowling
Prince George, BC
jbowling at direct.ca