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
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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
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