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Re: Tracking Ducks?

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Dave Kidwell

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Dave Kidwell

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Wed, 23 Mar 2005 04:34:02 -0800

Patty, 
I have been involved with the Atlantic Seaduck Project with Matt Perry at PWRC for several years now.  One of our projects has been tracking surf scoters via satellite telemetry as they leave the bay in the spring and travel to their breeding and molting grounds in Canada.  It has been several years since we have tracked male surf scoters, so the bird has not been transmitting for a couple of years now.  Males were used because they make a brief stop to nest with a female before heading the molting grounds (usually James Bay).  We switched to females to get a better idea of where the birds are nesting.  We also track black scoters as they leave their staging grounds in New Brunswick, Canada.  Feel free to e-mail me if you have any more questions.  Here is our website.
http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/resshow/perry/scoters/    
 
 
Dave Kidwell
Lothian, MD


Patty Craig <> wrote:
Hi All,

Yesterday I spent a little time at Point Lookout. I wanted to 
photograph some waterfowl, but there were not very many around, it was 
windy and they weren't close to shore. I took some photos anyway just 
to test exposure, etc. I took some of a distant male Surf Scoter. When 
I looked at them I noticed that in one photo the scoter appeared to have 
a band on the right leg. On closer inspection of that photo and others 
of the same scoter, I saw what appears to be an antenna. Does any one 
know of a study of Surf Scoters that is using a tracking device? I 
don't know what else this could be.

Thanks,
Patty Craig
Dameron, St. Mary's County, MD

		
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