Neck bands v leg bands

[David Stowe <>]

What are the reasons neck bands are worse than leg bands?

Cheers
Dave

On 23/05/2008, at 7:05 AM, Dave Torr wrote:

> I guess neck bands are easy to see on a bird that spends most of  
> its life
> with its legs in water - and has a long neck!
>
> 2008/5/23 Peter Shute <>:
>
> > Thanks Mike, I was hoping it would be something like that. I guess  
> > it means
> > it's a method that should be used with caution by the inexperienced.
> >
> > Regarding swan neck bands, I've never seen one. Why do thy use  
> > them instead
> > of leg bands?
> >
> > Regarding twitchers supplying data for research, I've been  
> > assuming that
> > many do that, but how would one know?  Perhaps all twitchers need  
> > to do to
> > defend their activities is to occasionally mention such  
> > activities.  It
> > might even be a good example to some non twitching birders who  
> > don't do it.
> > Peter Shute
> >
> >
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