>From ; Richard Swanston Delta, B. C. Canada Jan. 25, 1999.
The MYSTERY Has been solved with respect to Nasal Makers on
Bufflehead ducks
[ Bucephala albeola ] They like the Borrow's Goldeye seen earlier this
Winter were marked
In the Interior of B. C. by the Canadian Wildlife Service Mr. Sean Boyd
And Simon Fraser
University Wildlife Ecology Group under Prof. Fred Cook . A contact
person to report any
sightings is Mr. Matt Evans mrevans at sfu.ca

For buffleheads and Goldeye Please
report the colour and symbol type as such Red Square on the DUCKS
Right nostril
Yellow circle on the DUCKS Left Nostril . Reporting the Date, Time and
Place of sightings
Greatly increases are knowledge of migratory habits of are feathered
friends .
There is a great little site on the
Canadian Wildlife Service Regional
Web Site Page FOR Quebec on an ongoing satellite tracking program and
nasal disc tag
program on Borrow's Goldeye in the St. Lawrence River .
http://www.qc.ec.gc.ca/faune/sauvagine/html/gi_disques.html This
comes in English and
French look around there is more that at first glance check out were the
birds go to moult ??
When all the habitat is gone starlings will be on the R.
B. Alert . And all the
Christmas Bird counts will be conducted at the Mcdonalds in your
neighborhood

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