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 get10:30 AM...also had easy looks (that is how we also read the band numbers
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
Ken Hollinga
Cheers
Jay
