An adicional thing, that I learn in many year of pelagic trips in north of Asia.
No body shoot a banded bird.
Regards
AL
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From: "Frank O'Connor" <>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:25:31 +0800
To:
Subject: Red-necked Stints in trouble
> At 04:49 20/09/2001 -0700, Ian (aka Peter Cheuwon) wrote:
> >These people (the banders) are deluding themselves about the importance of
> >their banding data. A site is important if it is used by waders and if we
> >know
> >that a bird was banded at Altona or Broome, it makes very little difference.
>
> It makes a lot of difference. You won't have waders at Altona unless you
> protect them at all their migration stopover points. Leg flags are the
> most effective means of gathering this data now. We cannot afford to wait
> or these sites will be gone before we act, and the birds with them.
>
> There is no objective evidence to show that banded birds perform worse than
> unbanded birds. There is no difference in mean weights within age cohorts.
>
> And I strongly question the objectivity of the initial report. From the
> report, you would almost think that the flags were huge. I must admit that
> I looked at the date of the posting and the author ...
>
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