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With Permission...Especially for coastal birders. Good info to have and
save from David.
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Brush Freeman
503-551-5150 Cell
120 N. Red Bud Trail. Elgin, Tx. 78621
http://texasnaturenotes.blogspot.com/
Finca Alacranes., Utley,Texas
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From: David Newstead <dnewstead@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, May 13, 2015 at 7:14 AM
Subject: marked shorebirds
To: brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx
Hi Brush,
Brent Ortego had passed along a message you had posted on the Texbirds list
recently about a report of a marked godwit. It didn't mention which
species, but if it was Marbled it could well have been one I marked
recently. If Hudsonian, I could help track it down. At any rate, I thought
I'd just provide you a quick note about some of the shorebird projects I've
been working on in recent years that involve capture/marking. Every bird
I've marked is uniquely marked - either through a coded leg flag or the
position of various color bands.
Piping Plover - marked about 70 birds in Coastal Bend and Galveston areas.
All birds I've marked have a red flag on one of the upper legs, and
assorted color bands on other parts of legs. Other colored flags would be
from researchers in the Northern Great Plains (very few from Great Lakes or
Atlantic breeding populations).
Wilson's and Snowy Plover - Birds marked as part of a nesting ecology study
(and migration study for WIPL). Color bands on upper and lower legs (plus
a metal band)
Long-billed Curlew - 8 birds we captured are carrying satellite
transmitters, and can be identified in field by a two-digit coded leg band
(not flag)
Marbled Godwit - used some different types of tracking devices, but same
type leg band as with curlew
Black-bellied Plover, Sanderling, Ruddy Turnstone - three-digit
alphanumeric coded leg flags
Red Knot - I've now marked almost 600 knots in Texas and about 100 in
Louisiana with coded leg flags. Flags are either light ("lime") green with
black lettering or dark green with white lettering. We've also used several
different types of tracking devices in this research, some of which may
look like yellow "flags" on the legs.
If anybody has trouble tracking down where to send a resight report of a
shorebird, feel free to pass them along to me. It's a little confusing at
times.
Thanks
David
David Newstead
Director of Bird Conservation
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program
1305 N Shoreline Blvd, Ste 205
Corpus Christi TX 78401
dnewstead@xxxxxxxxx
361.885.6203
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