[birdky] RPT: Info on banded Sandhill Crane in Hardin County

From: "Palmer-Ball, Brainard (EPPC OOS KNPC)" <Brainard.Palmer-Ball@xxxxxx>
To: "BIRDKY" <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:53:16 -0500

This response came back from Sunday's sighting of the banded Sandhill
Crane west of Cecilia in Hardin County:
 
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Thank you for reporting this banded sandhill crane!  It is indeed a bird
banded by the International Crane Foundation.  It was captured as a
breeding adult male on its territory near Briggsville WI in 2001.  The
ICF has a long term study in this area, and we have been color marking
birds here since the early 1990's.  Please see this section of our
website for more info: www.bandedcranes.org
<http://www.bandedcranes.org/>  

If you have more precise geographic coordinate of where you saw this
bird, and what type of landcover it was using, we will put this into our
database.

This information is so important to us - quite often we do not see most
of the birds that we band, especially if they were banded as chicks.
From sightings such as yours we are discovering not only where some
birds spend the winter, but migration routes as well.  We have banded
over 300 birds to date; please do let us know if you see any more!

Thanks again-

 

Anne Lacy

Sandhill Projects Manager

 

International Crane Foundation

E-11376 Shady Lane Road   P.O. Box 447

Baraboo, WI 53913-0447 USA

608-356-9462 x146 / Fax: 608-356-9465

 

BPB, Frankfort

[birdky] RPT: Info on banded Sandhill Crane in Hardin County

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