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[Ken Hollinga <hollinga@xxxxxxx>]

The following is posted at the request of Jay Sheppard.

>
>From: JMSheppar@xxxxxxx
>Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 12:43:12 EST
>Subject: goose

>I tired to post a note on the VA-birds net, but it did not come back OR get
>posted.  ..........????  I followed the simple instructions at the bottom
>of each message as to how to post a message.   
>
>I am tracking down more info re the origin of the flock of Canadas it was
>with...two were banded as adults near Peterborough, Ont. in summer 1999.
>That is also a great area for aviculturists...so I am asking some contacts
>in CWS and others in that area to see if any of those aviculturists lost a
>Barnacle prior to last summer.  I expect such escapees to more likely
>imprint in their first summer on following/associating with another
>species, so this adult Barnacle is most likely to have joined the Canadas
>prior to 2001.  Canadians are not required to mark their captive waterfowl.
> Most of us in the FWS thought that only a fraction of the US captive
>waterfowl were marked in some manner....so an unmarked bird means zilch. 
>
>We had no problem finding the goose next to Lake Cook yesterday about
10:30 AM...also had easy looks (that is how we also read the band numbers
of the pair of Canadas it was with). 
>
>Cheers 
>
>Jay 
>
>
Ken Hollinga
Conventions and Conferences Manager
American Birding Association
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Springfield, VA 22153

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