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Fwd: Tagged Magpie

To: "'Martin Butterfield'" <>, "'COG List'" <>
Subject: Fwd: Tagged Magpie
From: "Mark Clayton" <>
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 17:06:53 +1100

Martin,

 

This looks like, and from the way it is behaving, like a rehabilitated bird. It is certainly NOT a bird that has been officially banded as it is not wearing a metal ABBBS band. The ABBBS also handles the issuing of colour band combinations so whoever has put the colour band on technically has done so illegally. I would suggest that this bird has been banded by the WIRES mob in NSW. To the best of my knowledge (as the Regional Organiser for the banding scheme) there is no-one in the ACT or local NSW area who is officially working on magpies.

 

Cheers,

Mark

 

From: Martin Butterfield [
Sent: Saturday, 28 March 2015 3:54 PM
To: COG List
Subject: [canberrabirds] Fwd: Tagged Magpie

 

A neighbour has sent me the following message.  Does anyone know of someone in the Carwoola area who is studying Magpies and may have colour banded this chap?  I'd have expected several colours to be applied rather than just a yellow one.

 

Martin

 

 


Subject: Tagged Magpie
To: Martin Butterfield <m("gmail.com","martinflab");">>


Hi Martin,

Just this minute we've interactive with and taken photos of a young magpie that is tagged.

Do you know why it would be tagged and would it belong to someone?

My son just patted it now after feeding it. It is following us around.

Wayne

 

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