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I got to help band ducks this morning.
Posted on 4/6/24 at 2:31 pm
Posted on 4/6/24 at 2:31 pm
It was an awesome experience and highly recommend it for those who haven’t. Last year I was there for 2 weekends when birds were banded. The farm I hunt in south/central LA host the process. Students come in to help a wildlife and fisheries biologist who conducts the whole process. That’s a very short explanation of it. This morning around 750 blue wings were captured with close to 20 being “repeat offenders” as I call them. (previously banded). This puts the farm around 1,500 blue wings banded this spring. After over 10 years of hunting it we have only killed 1 banded blue wing. Regardless it was an experience I wont forget!
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Posted on 4/6/24 at 2:41 pm to LPLGTiger
Nice ! Thats pretty cool !
Posted on 4/6/24 at 3:29 pm to LPLGTiger
How do they trap them?
Posted on 4/6/24 at 3:31 pm to LPLGTiger
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That would be really neat to do.
That would be really neat to do.
Posted on 4/6/24 at 4:51 pm to deeprig9
They bait an area for a few weeks ahead of time. A 40’x60’ rocket net captures the birds.
Posted on 4/6/24 at 4:57 pm to LPLGTiger
Damn, that’s a lotta ducks concentrated over a 40x60 area……tempting.
Posted on 4/6/24 at 5:02 pm to LPLGTiger
The method would make a duck like me not fly there anymore.
Posted on 4/6/24 at 6:08 pm to LPLGTiger
This baws lanyard now looking like Jeff Foiles’.
Posted on 4/6/24 at 8:52 pm to LPLGTiger
That’s sounds like a really cool experience. Congratulations.
I read an article in Ducks Unlimited years ago about a biologist who banded some ducks in Canada one spring and that fall he shot a mallard in Texas that he had personally banded. The odds of that would have to be astronomical.
I read an article in Ducks Unlimited years ago about a biologist who banded some ducks in Canada one spring and that fall he shot a mallard in Texas that he had personally banded. The odds of that would have to be astronomical.
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