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Re: Color-Banded Mockingbird near Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.

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Norm Saunders

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Norm Saunders

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Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:52:15 -0400

Jim,

Go to the F&WS Bird Banding Lab website at:
http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/

There it gives you the opportunity to report either a recovered bird
band or a color-marked bird.

Best,
Norm 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maryland Birds & Birding 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jim and Ann
Nelson
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 6:29 PM
> To: 
> Subject: [MDOSPREY] Color-Banded Mockingbird near 
> Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.
> 
> I don't remember if anyone else has reported this.  I was 
> visiting museums on the National Mall today in Washington, 
> D.C. and saw a Nothern Mockingbird (near the Smithsonian 
> Castle building) picking up something on the sidewalk near 
> one of the food vendors parked at the curb on Independence 
> Avenue.  When it flew up to a nearby bush, I saw it had a red 
> plastic band on its left leg (above a silver band -- 
> presumably an FWS band) and a yellow plastic band on its 
> right leg.  Does anyone know if someone is doing such banding 
> in downtown Washington?
> 
> Jim Nelson
> Bethesda, MD
>