[Bristol-Birds] banded canada goose found at Abingdon VA
- From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 16:40:17 -0400
A Canada Goose wearing a federal bird band was photographed at the highway
U.S.19 pond in Abingdon, VA
27 March 2007 by Richard Kretz of Russell County, VA. Richard was able to
determine the band number
and has recently received a message providing details from the USGS banding
office.
The band was placed on the goose near the mouth of Corn Valley just east of Elk
Garden in Russell County, VA
at a place called Rockdell. It was banded there 28 June 2004 by Gary Costanzo,
a wetland biologist with the Virginia
Department of Game & Inland Fishers from Barhamsville, VA which is located just
east of Richmond.
According to a wetland biologist on duty at the Barhamsville office today, the
state agency was banding Canada
Geese in Southwest Virginia in June 2004. Each year the agency seeks to band
about 2 percent of the birds
in various target areas to determine age/sex ratios, movement, population
growth, survival and other information
about the state's resident Canada Geese population.
The current population estimate is 145,322 (+/- 26%) in Virginia and over 1
million in the Atlantic Flyway.
Richard has been successful in both detecting the band and getting photo
documentation which made it possible
to determine the band number. He also provided the information online over the
internet to the federal bird banding
office.
Let's go birding.......
Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN
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