Good afternoon all,
I shall now change hats and put on that for my bird banding
role. Thanks to both Marnix and David for reporting the records of colour
banded and/or tagged birds – I have sent both on to the Australian Bird
and Bat Banding Schemes (ABBBS), part of the Federal Government’s Department
of Environment and Heritage. Any records like these or for banded birds picked
up, dead or alive, and from any other banding scheme in the world (but not “racing
pigeons” please) can be sent to
or given to either myself, Richard Allen, any of the regular Canberra banding
crew or to a COG committee member who will pass it on to me. Please give date
recorded, locality (as precise as possible with no “local” names if
possible), how you found the bird, what happened to the band and a contact
address for the finder.
At this stage I shall guess that the oystercatcher
was banded by the Victorian Wader Study group somewhere in SE Victoria and the Galah
is one of Judith Scarl’s birds banded locally as part of her PhD project.
Keep the records coming,
Thanks,
Mark
