Roy, Thanks for the follow-up on this. Interesting data on this Senior,
Nancy
On Tue, 7 Sep 2021 at 16:37, Roy Lowe <roy.loweiii@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On July 25th, Nancy Thomas and Laura Paulson observed and photographed a
color banded Caspian Tern along the HMSC trail at Yaquina Bay. On the
right leg it had a light green band over a silver(metal) band over another
light green band. On the left leg it had a red band over 2 blue bands. I
reported this sighting for them to the BBL and they could not determine the
individual bird so the BBL forwarded the observation to Oregon State
University who banded the bird. Today, I heard from Timothy Lawes and
Daniel Roby reporting that this individual was banded as a chick on East
Sand Island in the lower Columbia River in 2003 so it is now 18 years old.
This individual has a history of nesting at East Sand Island and also at
Sheepy Lake in Lower Klamath Lake NWR. In other words, it gets around.
Roy Lowe
Waldport, OR
