I second Bob's sentiments. I find it really interesting to find out where a
bird came from. It's a question I often ask myself in the field, so it's
great to get a firm answer every once in awhile.

I recently observed two banded Snow Geese in Snow Hill, Worcester County. I
submitted the band codes to the USGS and got a response back fairly
quickly. Both birds were banded in Montmagny, Quebec in Canada in the early
spring of 2009. Both are females and both hatched in 2008 or earlier.

Rob Ostrowski
Crofton, MD

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Bob Ringler <> wrote:

>   Last spring on May 8, 2010 I observed a banded immature Double-crested
> Cormorant roosting at Liberty Lake on the Baltimore / Carroll County line.
> I
> was able to read the F2F on the plastic band and reported it to the banding
> office. The office had no record of it at that time. I expected that it had
> been banded somewhere in Maryland or Virginia but I was way off. Today I
> received the banding certificate in the mail. It had been banded as a
> flightless young on July 15, 2009 on the Four Brothers Islands, Lake
> Champlain, 5.7 miles NE of Willsboro, New York. That's about 40 miles south
> of the Canadian border.
>   I encourage everyone to submit reports of any readable bands of any
> species. You may be surprised as I was.
>
> --
> Bob Ringler
> Eldersburg MD
>
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