Neck Banding

[Rebel Dog]

Does anyone know if neck danding geese is still be done? I heard that in some cases neck bands would freeze up and become to heavy for the birds and end up killing them, As well I havn't seen as many as years ago.

[johnch]

From all the geese I see with neck bands at Crane Creek state park (Ohio) they still must be doing it .

Johnch

[trailer]

In all the years I"™ve hunted, I"™ve never seen neck bands not saying that they don"™t use, I just never seen them.

[Rebel Dog]

We have killed a few but the ones we did were old birds the last one was 3 years ago and the bird was 12 years old. Then last year I saw one and it made me wonder if what I heard was true??

[duckhunter81891]

i saw 20 last year never sot 1 but... im not sure if they still do it or if what i saw was left overs

[vangunsmith]

Surprizing to me i killed two snows last year,both with plastic red & white neck bands,and leg jewelery as well. They came from maryland,and i shot them in the western flyway of calif. vangunsmith

[Rebel Dog]

When were the snows banded??

[johnch]

I just talked with 2 guys that volentered to hepl band geese for the Ohio DNR.
They used white neck bands ( can't remember lettering color ) this year.

Sept 1 I will try to add to my colection

Johnch

[mccullough01]

I talked to a conservation officer last year who banded snow geese. He said most orginaizations have stopped to a degree using neck bands becuase guys were keying on the yellow or red bands on the necks. They were getting extremely high kill rates on those neck banded birds. I think they still do it but keep the colors more closely to the bird feather to keep from keying on them birds.

[johnch]

Here is a 05 banded goose .
Come Sept 1 , I plan on adding it to my collection.

Can't see the leg band but its there.

Johnch