Tagged Magpie

[Marg Peachey <>]

From old "Wildlife Foundation" days, we were not able to band released birds because of the poor return rate.  Dead birds are not often found - usually food for cats or foxes.

marg

On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Philip Veerman <> wrote:

That is all reasonably sensible and understandable. My question is if they are given a plastic band, why aren't they also given an official ABBBS band? To meet the official protocols. I remember intentions from the wildlife foundation to start doing that 30 years ago. That would also give greater chance of getting more information (even though magpies don't move far).

 

Philip

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From: Denise Kay [
Sent: Sunday, 29 March 2015 8:51 AM
To: Canberra Birds
Subject: Fwd: [canberrabirds] Tagged Magpie

Please see the response from Wildcare re: young Magpie. 

The end result of raising orphaned/ ‘ rescued “  magpies once released is mostly unknown by those who raise them . 

We would all love to know how they cope or indeed if they cope. I for one would like to see a pilot program that allows us to tag these birds ( for perhaps two years ) if only to know if they survive or not.

Thanks 

Denise 

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Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Tagged Magpie

From: Home <>

Date: 29 March 2015 7:53:12 am AEDT

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To: Denise Kay <>

Hi Denise,

Yes that is a Wildcare juvenile magpie released in Carwoola in November, so good to hear it is doing well.  I actually got a phone call this afternoon from another person in Carwoola letting me know it has been sighted as well.

The magpie has a slight disability (falls over occasionally), but is otherwise OK.  It still visits the Wildcare member who raised it (also in Carwoola), but is now hanging out with a bachelor group in the area.  I'm not surprised it is following Wayne's son around as the Wildcare member has 2 boys who helped with raising it.

We haven't banded all of our juvenile magpies, but started doing some of them so we could track their progress.  Any further reports on banded magpies would be much appreciated and they can send them to me at 

Cheers,

Maryanne

 

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Marg Peachey

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