Long distance pintail
Hooch - I don't know the guys name, & didn't even know he was from LaGrange, but I'm pretty sure that he's a TopWater. Again - nothing against topwaters.
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It's a true story, and I'd love to hear some first hand accounts.
It's 5000 miles from where the bird was banded to where it was killed.
Our birds are "circumpolar", which means they could migrate to gdanged near anywhere in the northern hemisphere when they depart the nesting grounds. The mallards they kill in Europe, for example, are often the same ones we shoot over here (originate from same breeding grounds). In some years, nesting pintails in Alaska comprise 1/3rd of teh breeding population. Hens have tremendous fidelity to nest in the area they came from themselves. The drakes just follow along. Who knows how exactly that pintail made it to Ruleville, MS, but's one of teh most interesting waterfowl migration stories I've heard in quite a while.
It's 5000 miles from where the bird was banded to where it was killed.
Our birds are "circumpolar", which means they could migrate to gdanged near anywhere in the northern hemisphere when they depart the nesting grounds. The mallards they kill in Europe, for example, are often the same ones we shoot over here (originate from same breeding grounds). In some years, nesting pintails in Alaska comprise 1/3rd of teh breeding population. Hens have tremendous fidelity to nest in the area they came from themselves. The drakes just follow along. Who knows how exactly that pintail made it to Ruleville, MS, but's one of teh most interesting waterfowl migration stories I've heard in quite a while.
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eSJayoutdoors wrote:Hey JaMak84 - Maybe you should set the record straight since your really the only one that knows the "real story"
If I really had pulled the "bonehead" move of the century, I sure wouldn't be announcing it on this site.
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JaMak84 wrote:eSJayoutdoors wrote:Hey JaMak84 - Maybe you should set the record straight since your really the only one that knows the "real story"
If I really had pulled the "bonehead" move of the century, I sure wouldn't be announcing it on this site.
My bad JaMak84 - I took your post on the other subject serious. Thought you were the avian flu man.
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:28 am Post subject: Bands
Posted By: JaMak84
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I've been duck hunting for two years now, and finally shot a banded sprig last Thursday. Banded in Japan no less, that thing tasted fine!
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