"Yes I am concerned about the plight of the waders. Is it true that the
eigteen year old record was a curlew sandpiper with a single metal band, not
a colour flag. My concern is that a plastic leg flag or even worse
multiple flags l(not a single aluminium band) are particularly destructive
to small waders (size of Lesser Knot or smaller).. What is the oldest
return for a plastic colour leg flag (not band) on a small wader? What is
the oldest return for multiple plastic leg flags on small waders."
Can't comment on a lot of this but I can answer a few questions here.
The oldest return for a leg flag would be no more than 4-5 years I'm
guessing - simply because coloured leg flags haven't been in use for longer
than that.
And as far as I know, multiple flags are only used for the largest waders
(i.e. Eastern Curlew). Small waders only have a single, very small flag -
so small in fact that alpha-numeric coding of individuals isn't possible
with them.
Belinda
Narrogin (soon to be Scarborough)
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