From Tokyo to Tupelo

[Hooker]

From Tokyo to TupeloDisbelief and impossible odds surround banded pintail


RULEVILLE, Miss. "” The band was different, unlike anything Freddie Scott had ever seen. And likely neither had any other American hunter, for that matter.

[/align]"It appeared to be stainless steel, and every band I have ever seen was aluminum in appearance." Scott said. "I showed it to my son and we were both in disbelief at what we were seeing; I didn't know what to make of it."

Furthermore, Scott couldn't believe the inscription on the band; he thought it was a joke.
"It is still quite unbelievable that a pintail could fly that many miles in his lifetime; and how he ended up my hands on a farm in Ruleville, Miss., is beyond me," Scott explained.


Biologists say the band Scott recovered on January 3, 2008, from a drake northern pintail near Ruleville, was banded in ***an.



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[FLboy77]

WOW thats crazy!! Ive never heard ofanything like that before. I didnt even know they banded and researsed ducks in ***an. I thought it was all cell phones and computers.