USBBL takes reports on tags

http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/

reports on federal bands and colored tags but you have to ID the species

Report a colored band here.

http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/homepage/recwobnd.cfm

It does work. I've reported a couple of Marzluff's crows seen around
Seattle. You'll get an email from the PI if you get a verified report.

On Jun 5, 2009, at 9:50 PM, Tim Haller wrote:

> Did anybody else happen to see and/or ID this bird? Any
> suggestions as to
> who (or if) I should report this sighting to? As I understand it,
> they put
> those tags on so that people will report sightings.

Or so they can track birds themselves as part of a study ... this is
particularly true of color/letter wing tags (so a field worker can ID
a bird at a distance whilst observing it's behavior).
--
Kevin Purcell
kevinpurcell at pobox.com