Each band reported by hunters is essential for detecting changes in waterfowl populations and for setting hunting regulations ...

One of the best tools for hummingbird tracking is through banding, which involves placing a numbered metal ring on a bird’s ...

The Manomet banding lab in Plymouth bands around 2,500 new birds each year, helping answer pressing questions about habitat loss, ecological shifts and climate change.

While bands are placed on more than 300 species of birds, most of them (about 70 percent) non-game birds, the majority of the 90,000-100,000 or so reports the Bird Banding Lab has received over ...

Bird bands are more than just keepsakes. Bands help deliver invaluable information to managers to help them set seasons and bag limits so sportsmen and women have plenty of opportunities without ...

Anyone who finds or harvests a banded bird is asked to report it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service or by calling 800-327-BAND (2263). You’ll need the band number, as well as where, when and ...

Bird banding generally involves attaching a numbered, lightweight aluminum band to a bird’s leg. The process, which requires a federal permit, allows researchers to track birds as they’re ...

A newly banded yellow warbler flaps its wings as Stephanie Beilke holds it to allow birdwatchers a close look before releasing the bird on Thursday, May 16,2024.

Before the bird is released back into the wild, it’s banded with an aluminum Federal Fish and Wildlife band inscribed with a nine-digit number: a three-or-four-digit prefix followed by a dash ...

He banded something like 30,000 birds at our station over a period of 50 years or so, spending countless hours and amassing tremendous knowledge of plumages and habits of our avian visitors.

Before the bird is released back into the wild, it’s banded with an aluminum Federal Fish and Wildlife band inscribed with a nine-digit number: a three-or-four-digit prefix followed by a dash ...

Alaska has its share of big science projects, to be sure. But to get results, science doesn’t always have to be huge.Download Audio ...