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Ross's Goose and more Snow Goose collar fun

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Alexander Baish

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Alexander Baish

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Wed, 6 Jan 2010 16:44:13 -0800

It seems this Eastern Shore is teeming with neck-banded geese! Today just
south of Chesapeake College, in the fields between Route 50 and Grange Hall
Road, I scoped a flock of over 500 Snow and 300 Canada Geese. Light was
failing in the evening, so a comprehensive examination of the Canada Geese
was impossible, but a quick scan didn't turn up unusual brown geese. There
was one ROSS'S GOOSE and 4 neck-banded Snow Geese amongst the white geese.
This flock was exchanging geese with another group of about 500 Snow Geese
at the 2.0 Mile Marker along Route 404, so a Ross's could conceivably be in
either group.

RJ90, adult female, August 2009, Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada
65CE, adult female, May 2009, Īle-aux-oies, Quebec, Canada
RF15, adult female, August 2009, Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada
RK58, adult female, August 2009, Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada

I encountered well over 2000 more Snow Geese between 3 separate flocks
strung along 404 between where it breaks off of Route 50 and Denton, so
there could be no end to the fun for adventurous types out there searching
for neck bands. I would be very interested to know how many different neck
banded birds people encounter over the course of this winter and from where
they've come.




On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Amanda Spears <>wrote:

> I entered band numbers from  some geese in the backyard on 12/31, and found
> out that AE70 was banded on Aug 1990! I'm not sure how long Snow Geese live,
> but 20 years? That's awesome. Also found out it visited MD back in 1992 on
> 12/29.
>
> Thanks for the link and I hope everyone else is looking out  and entering
> in their snow goose bands.
>
> Amanda Spears
>
> Sent from my iPod
>
> On Jan 5, 2010, at 8:38 AM, Joe Hanfman <> wrote:
>
> > Here is the link to search Snow Goose collars.
> >
> > http://www.cen.ulaval.ca/gon-gsg/en_recherche.php
> >
> >
> >
> > A1H1 adult female, Aug 2007, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada
> >
> > 26AT  adult female, May 2008, Ile-aux-oies, Quebec, Canada
> >
> > PK00 adult female, Aug 2007, Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Joe Hanfman
> >
> > Columbia, MD
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Norm Saunders" <>
> > To: 
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 5, 2010 3:32:19 AM GMT -05:00 Colombia
> > Subject: [MDOSPREY] FW: Please post
> >
> > From Peter Kaestner:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > While looking unsuccessfully for the Northern Shrike on Friday (I > did
> see a
> > well fed Cooper's at the end of Kibler Rd.) I saw a massive flock of >
> Snow
> > Geese along McGinnes Rd (Md 544), about 500 yards East of the corner > of
> > Kibler and 544 at sunset.  In the flock of some 10,000 birds were > three
> with
> > yellow neck rings, numbers: A1H1, 26AT and PK00.
> > Peter Kaestner
>
>
>


-- 
Alex Baish
Ocean City, MD (home)
Baltimore, MD (work/school)