Subject: [Tweeters] Ethics question about banding owls
Date: Dec 7 11:05:50 2005
From: Edwin R Lewis - lewis at eecs.berkeley.edu




----- Original Message -----
From: Jamie Acker <owler at sounddsl.com>
Date: Tuesday, December 6, 2005 11:10 am
Subject: [Tweeters] Ethics question about banding owls

> I'll weigh in as well, as both a bander, a birder, and an owler.
>
> Between Dawn Garcia and myself, we have banded over 50 Barred Owls on
> Bainbridge Island in the past six years, though many of them were
> nestlings. I have one adult who is 8 years old, another female that
> willbe 6 in a month. I wouldn't know this if they weren't banded. I
> wouldn'tknow that the adult female that lives at Islandwood came
> from a nest near
> Agate Pass on the north end of the Island. Or that another hatch
> year bird
> has taken up residence on a new terrotory at the south end of the
> Island.Or that one of my banded nestlings was hit by a vehicle over
> in Bremerton,
> three years later.
>
> There is a lot to be learned that can only be accomplished through
> bandingor trapping these birds and doing transmitter installations.
> Thoughtemporarily stressful, I often will have an owl that I
> trapped return
> within minutes of release to the trap setup and take the bait mouse.
>
> And yes, I think banders generally are sensitive to those "special"
> birds.
> -Jamie
>
>
>
>
> Jamie Acker
> Bainbridge Island, WA
> Owler at sounddsl.com
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Where can one find compilations of your owl data? Is it part of a research project that is or eventually will be
summarized in the archival literature?

Ted Lewis