Banded Birds?

[Dakota]

Anyone shot one and is there a story behind it? Just thought this would be a good thread.

Dakota

[total disaster]

i have shot 4 banded birds but the one that always gets me wondering is i shot a hen eider one time...and when I got the info back on the band it was 7 + years old and banded within a half mile of where I shot it

[Ravin R10 man]

Shot about 6 or 8 canada geese with leg bands and a couple had neck bands..mostly were from Northern Hudson Bay area when they were nesting, we got one banded snow goose that was 11 years old

leg bands go on my call landyard for show & tell

[dogdoc]

Got invited by a friend for a goose hunt. We were staked out on a small pond in the middle of a huge wheat field. My buddy and scouted them using the pond after morning feed. Around 11:30 they finally decided to show up. We let a large group land and then decided to take them. Mostly snows with a few Canadas mixed in. I wanted a snow goose to mount so I only aimed at the snows. With my 3rd shot I had white goose veer to my right. the goose dropped and Belle retrieved. After she brought it back i discovered the jewelry. There were lots of snows dropped but I was 100% sure I dropped this one as I was the only one who shot in that area. I went to my buddy and told him I shot a banded snow (or at least thought it was a snow). He has hunted this area for many years and has never shot a banded goose. i told him he could have the bands but I wanted to mount. He of course said "You shot it so it's your bands".

Double banded Ross Goose with a $45 money band:

todd

[Mach1]

My brother and I both shot a banded mallard a few years back. They in the 08-09 goose season, they shot two banded geese from the same flock. Also during that season, my brother was scouting cornfields and saw a few geese with neck bands that we hoped to get a shot at but never did.

[layin on the smackdown]

So far the only banded bird i have killed (and not let a customer take) was a double banded goose that had a radio backback on it...Banded in June of 2001 and i killed it in November of 2001...The banding agency (Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation) offered me $500 for the backpack back....I said nope, sorry, its already at the taxidermist...

I wonder what the heck they were thinking when they saw that sucker sitting in the same spot for a month and half...This back pack deal has 2 elastic bands: one that stretches around the front top of the gooses breast, and the other that stretches back around it butt, but behind its legs...They are connected by a small 2 inch by 1 inch silver radio transmitter deal. After i shot that bird, and our dog was trying to retrieve it, i could clearly see it was having a hard time mouthing the bird...couldn't figure out why until the dog got back to the blind....

i'll post a pic when my wife gets back from miami with our camera.

[layin on the smackdown]

A few years before that, my dad shot a drake wood duck that had a ring band through its nostril cavities....looked like a regular leg band, but just a tad smaller...Super wierd for sure.