Anyone ever find and duck or goose bands???

[dk dogs]

I am a waterfowl hunter big time. I was reading this summer on one of the web pages for waterfowl hunters and noticed that a guy took his MD to a public hunting area and walked the banks by the water. He recovered 16 waterfowl bands in one day. Kind of cool!!!
So let me know if you have ever found any or any stories heard about this
Thanks
Dave

 

[Eric from NC]

Wow. I have never thought about that. I also hunt, and you and I both know what a "prize" a banded duck or goose is. Did your friend report the band numbers? Hope I find one.

 

[dk dogs]

He did report them. I dont think there were any over 5 years old.

 

[littletwig]

I found one from a homing pigeon. Al band 1988

 

[jabbo]

I found a goose band last month and reported it. Just curious, what makes these bands a prise.

 

[dk dogs]

Were did you find your goose band? Did it have the phone number on the band or the older advise band?

What makes them a prize is that as when you shoot a bird with a band on it you get the full history of the bird. Were it was banded, sex, age, etc... It offers more than just another goose that you killed. Most people that get a band put them on their lanyard as a trophy prize. Some people hunt all their lives and never get a band. I have been hunting for 20 years and only have a hand full of bands. They are hard to come across which makes them such a prize

 

[waltship]

What do the bands look like? I don't think I've ever seen one.

 

[dk dogs]

Here are a few I have shot. One of them was a $100 reward band. They mail you a check for turning in the I.D. info on the bird... Not all of them but the ones with two bands most of the times are reward bands

 

[waltship]

Thanks Dk Dogs. If I ever find any, I'll send it in, not for the money, but for the birds info.

 

[1859large]

Does an ear tag from a cow count. I found one last summer. The date on it was1978.

HH

1859

 

[jabbo]

I dug up the goose band in a park in New Brunswick, NJ. It has a phone No. on it. The park is loaded with Canadian geese.

 

[dk dogs]

Cool! did you report it? If so how old was the bird?

 

[tab-nabit]

I have found 2 bands one afternoon detecting next to a levee some years ago. Kept them on a key ring for awhile, now I think they are lost somewhere here in the house since I haven't seem them in awhile. Hunters used to float along the levee for waterfowl, folks used to fish there also. Been some years since I been there myself.

 

[dk dogs]

I have a goose band as a key ring also..