Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Curlew Bling; BB&B Reaches Out


This Long-billed Curlew was at Border Field State Park, CA, just south of the Tijuana River Mouth on July 3, 2012. Whose curlew is this?



She looks like she's wearing a geolocator tag on her right leg.


This curlew is very valuable to the biologists who banded her. Fortunately, she looks like she's in good health.



I submitted her band combos and information to the Patuxent Bird Banding Labratory, but I was hoping that maybe one of you might know how to lead me to where she was banded.

5 comments:

  1. Ooh! I worked on LBCUs for my MS work in western NE. This isn't one of ours though. However, let me contact some folks, I'm sure we can find out who....

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  2. Wish I could help--lovely photos, though.

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  3. Heard through the grapevine that this is one of Alex Hartman's LBCUs from Nevada. I haven't heard anything directly from him though. Apparently this bird has been down in the SD area for several years? It would be nice to hear from him.

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    1. Awesome, that's great to know. I didn't know if it was just a migrant or would be wintering...I bet it spends a good nine months of the year here, pretty cool.

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    2. I seen one near Sioux falls SD also ,

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