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v><br></div><div><div id=3D"AppleMail --_B084AC53-8EF4-4E5A-A246-4011AF463E93_ Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi Ken, WOW, that=E2=80=99s really good information and I very much appreciate your= feedback! I too find it increases my interest 10 fold when a catch a ban= ded bird. The RBGU I got last year was purely accidental while taking shot= s of the Bonaparte=E2=80=99s fishing at the first bridge on the SM Trail. = Just for the heck of it, I made a few shots of the RB Gull also diving for = fish and did not realize =E2=80=98till I got home that he was banded. Same= for the Piping Plovers at Conrad Beach. It is lots of fun trying to find = info from the bands/tags. =20 You mention that the subject Pintail may have been banded by a friend in Co= droy. I love that area! My wife and I stayed at a B&B in Codroy on our th= ird trip to Newfoundland a couple of years ago. I have toured almost the w= hole coast of Newfoundland during our three trips there but I love the west= coast best. I may be going back again this summer.=20 With regard to Piping Plovers, I thank you for your Guardianship. I too lo= ve them and whenever I get a chance to see them I=E2=80=99m =E2=80=9Con the= beach=E2=80=9D when the sun comes up. A number of years ago we had a summ= er place on Cape Cod, near Dennisport and I spent two breeding/fledging sea= sons on a nearby beach watching and photographing 7 families of Piping Plov= er adults and youngsters as they matured. This Beach =E2=80=93 West Dennis= =E2=80=93 is a very large beach with a lot of summer traffic. At the west= end of the beach there is a large sand dune covered with dune grass =E2=80= =93 think Martinique Beach but smaller. Usually there are 3 or 4 nest site= s on the dune. There is also a nesting Least Tern colony on the dune. Loc= al wildlife protection places snow fence around the tern colony and when th= ey find the plover nest sites within they place a =E2=80=9Ccage=E2=80=9D ov= er each nest site to keep the gulls, foxes, Coyotes, DOGS and PEOPLE out of= the area. They have to come and inspect the site daily because a lot of th= e beachgoers couldn=E2=80=99t care less =E2=80=93 I=E2=80=99m sure you know= what I mean! However, the nesting terns were a much better deterrent and = I got to see their young as well! Anyway, the first summer I had three families with probably 9 chicks hatche= d and only a couple of fledged survivors. The second year I had 4 families = with 11 chicks hatched but can=E2=80=99t be sure of survivor number =E2=80= =93 I thought is was about 7 at time. I used to get up at 0500 and sit on = the wrack line quietly and wait for the birds to come out of the =E2=80=9Cc= ompound=E2=80=9D to feed at the tide line. The second year was the most i= nteresting. The length of beach I am talking about is about =C2=BC mile lo= ng and I found that year that the four nesting pairs had divided the beachf= ront into four distinct areas and that they guarded their sections from th= e other plovers fiercely. Also, they came in a sequence spaced about a we= ek apart I.e. the first family started at the western end then the second c= ame in a week later to the east of the first pair. Then the week tree pair= showed up followed a week later by the fourth pair who got the eastern mos= t end of the beach (unfortunately that=E2=80=99s the closest end to the bea= ch people)! The beauty of this was It gave me the opportunity wo watch the maturation f= rom hatch to fledging without having to set up camp! That was a fantastic= two summers. Best Regards, Paul P.S. Just got an email from friend Laurie Ann Quigley that a friend of her= s confirms =E2=80=9Cour=E2=80=9D Pintail was also observed at Todd=E2=80=99= s Road St Margret=E2=80=99s Bay and says =E2=80=9Cthat guy gets around=E2= =80=9D lol Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Ken McKenna Sent: February 8, 2019 9:29 AM To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Banded Morash pintail 2018 Hi Paul I forgot to mention the presentations on Tues were part of the Pictou Co Na= turalists this past Tues night- Some very interesting slides shown. It was = quite a coincidence you report the banded Pintail day after the presentatio= n =C2=A0on the bird which was photographed a year ago by Steve Vines who sh= owed the slide in his presentation. Even more of a coincidence was that Jud= y Kendell was present at the talk and her husband Charlie, my good birding = friend, who passed away couple years ago may actually have been involved in= banding that bird. The Kendells were =C2=A0Codroy Valley Newfoundlanders t= ill moving to NS and Charlie at times assisted in banding ducks when he was= home in the summer. He may have banded that bird! =C2=A0 I have reported scores of banded birds over the years. I usually just googl= e =E2=80=9Creporting banded birds=E2=80=9D. =C2=A0The site I use is=C2=A0ht= tps://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/BBL/bblretrv/ Usually hear back quite quickly if all numbers can be read. The centre for = North America I believe is Patuxent Wildlife Centre Bird Banding Lab which = is US based.=C2=A0 Since I volunteer with Piping Plover guardian program, I usually just repor= t those bands directly to the NS program director who was Sue Abbott. She i= s moving on from that position and a search is on for a new director.=C2=A0 My most interesting banded bird was a Whimbrel which had been banded in Mac= Kenzie Delta =C2=A0and which had also been fitted with a radio collar at th= e time. It was traced back on forth on migration to Brazil till transmitter= was lost and my report was first after a few years of no contact. The migr= ation route was very interesting down the east coast in fall migration and = up the west coast in spring. Finding banded birds adds to the interest in o= bserving bird behaviour.=C2=A0 All the best Ken=C2=A0 Sent from my iPad Ken McKenna Stellarton=C2=A0 NS=C2=A0 On Feb 8, 2019, at 6:57 AM, Paul Murray <pwmurray.murray911@gmail.com> wrot= e: Ken, Thanks for the updated band info - I updated my photos to include it in the= captions. =C2=A0 I'm curious.....why does the band appear to have a USA co= ntact address on it - specifically, it looks to me like "Lauren, Maryland w= ith a 1-800 327-.... phone number? =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Is that a central registry= ? =C2=A0=C2=A0 This is my fourth occasion finding identifiable bands or tags.=C2=A0 A coup= le of years ago I got a tagged Piping Plover at White Point Lodge - he was = well documented locally and authorities were on site at the time! =C2=A0=C2= =A0 In 2018 I had 2 Piping Plovers Tag V4 and Tag N1 at Conrad Beach in May= - I was only provided info for one of them, a Nova Scotia bird;=C2=A0 then= I had a Ring-Bi