A discussion of the costs and benefits of bird banding ran its course on Tweeters a couple of months back. For any who care to review the debate, full text of the postings can be found in the Tweeters Archives for April 5-7, 2012:

http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/pipermail/tweeters/2012-April/date.html

Since that discussion was so complete and so recent, please refrain from reviving the thread. There is no need to start around the same circle again.

Thanks for your understanding.

Hal Opperman (pinch hitting for Dan Victor)
tweeters-owner at mailman1.u.washington.edu