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And a sack.

Can even get some banded exotics.

You mean goose AND Peacock spot. Sweet. It's been years since I've seen neck collars on a bird. I didn't even knew they still did that. That one goose didn't get a leg band, which seems unusual. Every collared bird I've ever shot had a leg band to go along with it. Wonder why that guy didn't get one.....

don novicki wrote:You mean goose AND Peacock spot. Sweet. It's been years since I've seen neck collars on a bird. I didn't even knew they still did that. That one goose didn't get a leg band, which seems unusual. Every collared bird I've ever shot had a leg band to go along with it. Wonder why that guy didn't get one.....

The late USFWS Senior Flyway Biologist, Art Brazda, once told me we really don't know how long some waterfowl can live because the bands were apt to wear through and fall off around the 20 year mark. No way that bird wasn't banded when collared.

I wasn't going to submit any band reports, but I went ahead and submitted the one without the leg band just to see if it is an old goose or if it just lost its leg band by chance. The last time I submitted a report on a visual leg band, it took a while to get a report back. I think the standard leg bands are automated once they get in the system, but these visual ones are not so someone has to look it up.

I know they put white neck collars on geese at the Brookfield zoo, where I took these pictures, a number of years ago because that year they shot 2 or 3 at the club where I hunt that year. None since that I know of. The club is about 25 miles apart as the goose flies from the zoo. I've seen a few white neck collars other places over the year, but have no idea if they were all banded at the zoo or just what they use in our area.

That's one old goose then for sure....

I got the band report back. It was a young of the year banded in 2015 near where I saw it. It did have a leg band at the time it was banded. It's made it through 9 seasons wearing that bullseye. Not bad.