{"id":111,"date":"2006-01-29T12:57:30","date_gmt":"2006-01-29T17:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2008-09-01T13:46:35","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T18:46:35","slug":"banded-goose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2006\/01\/29\/banded-goose\/","title":{"rendered":"Banded Goose"},"content":{"rendered":"

As well as adding Cackling Goose to my life list<\/a>, and my first ever four goose day<\/a>, today stands out as the first time I’ve read a band in the field. Of course when they’re this close and obvious it’s no great achievement:<\/p>\n

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\nNormally you need a spotting scope, and a lot of luck to read bands in the field; or you need to recapture the bird. This band could be read with the naked eye. I reported<\/a> it to the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Bird Banding Laboratory<\/a>. They’re the central location for reporting all banded birds in North America. <\/p>\n

Bird banding is used to track bird migration and movement. Bands were first used on hunting falcons in Europe, at least as far back as the sixteenth century. John James Audubon was the first to use it in North America. Two hundred years ago he tied bits of yarn to phoebes to prove that the same birds returned to a site every spring. <\/p>\n

This is actually an interesting siting. The collar seen here is orange with four characters. This style of collar is used on the Mississippi flyway. On the local Atlantic flyway, a different three character “bib-type” collar that better resists icing is used. Thus this bird was banded quite far from here, and must have been moving East-West instead of North-South like geese normally do. <\/p>\n

This is the first time I’ve seen a banded goose in Prospect Park. I’ll keep an eye out for this in the future to see if it sticks around, or if any other lost geese show up. :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As well as adding Cackling Goose to my life list, and my first ever four goose day, today stands out as the first time I’ve read a band in the field. Of course when they’re this close and obvious it’s no great achievement:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}