Neck Banding
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Virginia
Posts: 440
Neck Banding
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.
#4
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Virginia
Posts: 440
RE: Neck Banding
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??
#8
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: NW Ohio , 5 min from Ottawa National / Magee Marsh
Posts: 2,051
RE: Neck Banding
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
They used white neck bands ( can't remember lettering color ) this year.
Sept 1 I will try to add to my colection
Johnch
#9
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 9
RE: Neck Banding
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.