Lonnie & Tweeters:



For reporting birds with bands or markers:

<https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/bblretrv/index.cfm> https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/bblretrv/index.cfm

This website is run by the Bird Banding Laboratory where the data base resides. The online information supplied by the observer usually results in an immediate match to the data base where one can learn the origin of the particular bird being reported. Besides that, you can opt to have a certificate of appreciation printed for reporting ?your? bird. That and knowing that somewhere you have made a bander happy.



One of the bands will be a numbered aluminum Federal band, whose numbers you probably won?t be able to make out. The colored bands on the other legs, if reported correctly (Left leg white over blue, right leg aluminum over yellow), may result in a match with the data base.





J. Acker

<mailto:owler at sounddsl.com> owler at sounddsl.com

Bainbridge Island, WA



From: tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Lonnie Somer
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2017 3:26 PM
To: Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Subject: [Tweeters] Banded Caspian Tern at Discovery Park



Hi Tweeters,

A couple of us were birding Discovery Park, Seattle this morning and we spotted a Caspian Tern with leg bands. I don't know who to notify. I've posted a photo of it on eBird. I don't really have a telephoto lens, so it is hard to make the bands out in detail, but they might be clear enough for the person(s) involved in the study. Here's the link: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S38477510

It was actually surprisingly birdy there today, considering the time of year and the heat wave. We tallied just over 50 species, including 3 Marbled Murrelets.

Good birding,

Lonnie Somer

Seattle

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