Thought I'd let the Tweeters "community" know that Gary Bletsch's goldeneye
sighting has apparently found its way to the researcher, Kim Jaatinen, who
put the markers on the bird. Kim is a PhD student at the University of
Helsinki and he is marking Barrow's Goldeneyes in an area of British
Columbia around Riske Creek. Kim is studying waterfowl brood rearing
strategies. I'm not sure how Kim recognized that this was definitely one of
his birds given that there appear to be multiple researchers in British
Columbia and Alaska putting nasal markers on goldeneyes.

In any case, I was pleased to learn from where this bird has come.

Kelly McAllister
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
Olympia, Washington
Reply to: mcallisters4 at comcast.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Bletsch" <garybletsch at yahoo.com>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 9:34 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] tagged goldeneye in Concrete


> Dear Tweeters,
>
> Today I saw a female goldeneye, Barrow's I believe, in
> the lower Baker River in Concrete. The bird had an
> aluminum leg band. Very striking indeed was another
> marker born by this bird, a pair of whitish-yellow
> triangles affixed to its bill! Is this an attempt to
> stop snoring in goldeneyes, or is it some sort of
> identifier, akin to color-banding?
>
> Yours truly,
>
> Gary Bletsch
>
>
>
> Yours truly,
>
> Gary Bletsch
>
> near Lyman (Skagit County), Washington
>
> garybletsch at yahoo.com
>
>
>
>
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