birding-aus

RE: Decline of small waders

To: "Marilyn Davis" <>, "phil straw" <>, <>
Subject: RE: Decline of small waders
From: "Gemfyre" <>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 14:08:34 +0800
"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) ===============================
www.birding-aus.org
birding-aus.blogspot.com

To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line)
to: 
===============================

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
Admin

The University of NSW School of Computer and Engineering takes no responsibility for the contents of this archive. It is purely a compilation of material sent by many people to the birding-aus mailing list. It has not been checked for accuracy nor its content verified in any way. If you wish to get material removed from the archive or have other queries about the archive e-mail Andrew Taylor at this address: andrewt@cse.unsw.EDU.AU