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re: Banded duck with no numbers...
Posted on 1/19/14 at 8:42 pm to oleyeller
Posted on 1/19/14 at 8:42 pm to oleyeller
Decided to google oldest banded duck after reading this thread and this popped up
I bet a 30 year old goose is tough!! LINK
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Banding Factoids
Wednesday, 01/30/2008
Duck bandThe first large-scale North American banding program was established in 1922.
Through 2007, about 16 million waterfowl have been banded in North America, including about 13 million ducks.
Biologists band more than 200,000 ducks and nearly 150,000 geese and swans in North America each year.
About 85,000-90,000 bands are reported each year.
Through 2009, most duck banding efforts have focused on mallards. The mallard is the most commonly banded and most commonly harvested duck in the United States and Canada. Approximately 7 million mallards have been banded through 2007.
The oldest known waterfowl banded in North America was a Canada goose that lived to be 30 years and 4 months old. The oldest mallard lived to 26 years, 4 months.
I bet a 30 year old goose is tough!! LINK
Posted on 1/20/14 at 4:34 am to oleyeller
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so it just means someone caught it and put a band on it? it just makes the bird a little more unique?
When you call in the numbers, you get the history of when and were it was banded. I killed one the was banded 7 years that was done in Canada. I wood duck at that. Now the bird could of been older then 7 years old, but that is a long time for one to live.
Posted on 1/20/14 at 10:13 am to Shanesix
What everyone else said. Very old bird. I killed a mallard drake one time banded in Manitoba 11 years before his death in East Texas.
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