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A lot of your success will be from where you hunt. My group of friends will kill over 100 geese a year,with only a few bands. Maybe 4 or 5 a year. But we have hunted in other areas where 50% of the birds are banded. These areas are closer to where they band a lot of them. | |||
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I have been very fortunate on bird bands. I have two lanyards full; one duck, the other geese. Only one neck band however, although friends and I have tossed a coin to divide the leg and neck bands. I get the leg band every time. I have one band from a Starling, 4-5 Dove bands and the rest are waterfowl. I didn't hunt last year in the States, but one of my friends shot a banded Redhead drake from my blind. LDK Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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I have probably got about 7 geese and 5 ducks with Bands but one was from Siberia on a Snow Goose I shot at Summer Lake in Oregon. One other good one was many years ago,I was hunting with my wife and a couple other guys and we were talking about banded birds and a flock of Pintails came in and my wife got one (her 2nd duck in her life) and came back to the blind with it and proudly proclaimed that hers had a banded leg. It did, every one about died. | |||
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i've killed three banded greenheads in my waterfowl hunting career, two on the South Platte in Eastern Colorado and one in Western Nebraska. All three were banded by the same guy in Persons, Alberta. The last one I got was 12 years old. Never have shot a banded goose, but the urban Canadas that hang around Fort Collins have tons of jewelry. It isn't uncommon to see leg bands and green neck bands daily at City Park lake or on City Park Nine golf corse. I have suspicions that Colorado State University's Wildlife management students do some banding here in town, because the bands are everywhere. I have never actually confirmed this however. A friend who hunts just outside of town and his buddies killed five with leg bands and two with neck collars last year. All were banded in Denver someplace. It took me about twenty years of duck hunting to get my first band, however. I never did see one in Wisconsin where i grew up. Dawg | |||
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That's a big zippo for me...I hunted hard birds from ages 12-18 then took a hiatus for a few years (I think they call it college) but now I'm back. I've never seen a banded duck or goose. My grandfather has hunted waterfowl for most of his life (he's 70) and has never shot a banded bird. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit"--Aristotle (384BC-322BC) | |||
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I've hunted ducks quite a bit in MT too, from Billings to Malta and out to St. X.....my buddy out there has killed 1000s and only has 3 bands....I have 4 or 5 goose bands, ZERO duck bands. | |||
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It really matters where you hunt. I've hunted ducks and geese for more than 35 years. I've never killed a bird with a band, nor have any of my companions when they were hunting with me. I have friends who hunt on the Susquehanna River who have several bands after only a few years of hunting. Some of my other friends hunt the NW of PA and they have necklaces. I never gave it much thought, since I hunt ducks, not bands. Bfly Work hard and be nice, you never have enough time or friends. | |||
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4 bands here, + a 5th from a pheasant, in about 30 years of duckin'... it's my understanding that there are far fewer banded birds here in CA than in other parts of the country... don't know if it's true or not, but anecdotally it seems so....although my buddy just got one last night, big greenhead.... Regards, Craig Nolan Best Regards, Craig Nolan | |||
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Huh! Never heard of a pheasant being banded before... Good to see you still around, Craig. ______________________ Hunting: I'd kill to participate. | |||
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I have shot 9 Mallards, 1 Ross's Goose, and 2 Canadas with bands. The Ross's also had a neck band. Hawkeye47 | |||
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KG, neither had I; I need to dig that band out to post what it's markings, different than those from waterfowl. Still here, just not as much waterfowling these days due 2 young kids, + there seems to be a general decline in the duckin' here in NorCal, with a few exceptions (like DLS' club in the Sink, phenomenal area and very $$$) we've got a lease there, but it doesn't shoot well keep posting those pics and stories KG, always enjoyable!! Merry Chistmas to you and yours, Regards, Craig Nolan Best Regards, Craig Nolan | |||
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Last summer I found a dead pigeon in Jamaica Bay, Queens NY that had a band. Does that count?  Understand about being busy with life. My invitation to come and hunt is open-ended, and I've love to get you out as you're able some day. Thanks for the support, and Merry Christmas to you and yours as well, Craig. I'll get some more pics of our adventures in waterfowling soon. Birds are IN.  ______________________ Hunting: I'd kill to participate. | |||
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