That's cool. I've got 8 bands but all from ducks. 2 mallards and 6 wood duck bands. Fixing to get serious on crows, this is the last weekend of duck season.
When I was in Mexico on vacation several years ago those big boat tail grackles wud land on the table we were eating on. Three out of ten of them were banded.
Those big boat tailed Grackles were very impressive birds indeed! You folks in the plains got all that cool (and un-cool) wildlife and i cannot wait to return!!
Being a life long duck and crow hunter I have "A Ton" of duck bands! I shot two ducks that had REWARD bands,one black duck
30 years ago foe $25.00 one mallard drake for $100.00 12 years ago he was banded in New Bruinswick Ca. 3 weeks before I shot him on opening day in Mass. The oldest band I have is a black duck @ 21years old A Common Eider hen at 12years old,and a Common Eider hen that had the Numbers worn off!!! The Maryland Lab tried X-ray but no luck!!
STILL LOOKING FOR THE "CROW BAND" It's a habit even when picking up cripples!
BTW BOB I picked up some original Johnny Stewart 45s STILL IN THE WRAPPER SEALED!!!!!!
reminds me of my first caller in the 70's WHERE DOES THE TIME GO??????
HOPE ALL IS WELL!!!!!!
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You find out any details on it yet Bob? Looks like it hasn't been banded for more than a couple seasons. I wonder how much ground he's covered. They did a tracking study om mallards a few years back outfitting them with gps backpacks that would update locations on a map. It was really cool to track movements of the bird as it moved from north to south. Crows migrate some too, similar to ducks. I guess food, or lack of it, pushes them.
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Two crows that I have shot came out of Saskatchewan, Canada (banded crows) and were shot in Kansas back in the 1970's. That is at least a thousand mile flight depending where in Saskatchewan the bird was banded. The third crow was shot in Kansas in the early 1980's and was banded here in Kansas not 20 miles from where he was shot. I will soon find out where this forth crow was banded?
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First thanks Big Honkers!!!! Yes Bobby still shooting crows at 56.!! Im guiding Sea Duck hunting here in the North East(Mass.)
I chase the crows in the off season and STILL LOVE THE CAAAAAA CAAAAAA CAAAAA and the sneaky HIZZONER!!!!
its getting tough on the OCEAN these days jumping on/off boats/ledges but hanging in! Cold WET WEATHER knocks the
S--T OUT OF ME NOW and is tough on the hands picking up the dog and dekes.but still loving it.CROWS thinned out a BIT the last two years here,don't know why, west Nile /eee.???? I was 14 when I got my 45 rpm player and I thought I was "**** OF THE WALK" boy did that work! I had to use my paper route money to buy it and batteries but man it started me on the ROAD!!!! Busy with 3 English setters and 2 labs though I do use the labs sometimes on crows as you see on my avatar.i have 2 english pointer pups coming in May.Cant get enough of it!!!! I hope you are WE'LL!!!!
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It was banded in Kyle, Saskatchewan Canada on June 11th 2014 and I shot it in Oklahoma on January 27th 2015. This will be the third banded crow I have shot that came out of Saskatchewan.
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