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What is this?

Postby timbertalk » Mon Feb 01, 2010 2:07 pm

Had a guest at our camp kill this mallard hen this weekend. Banded in Maryland. We have called it in but they have not gotten back to us yet. We think this may be a gps transmitter, but we really have no idea. Any of you ever seen anything like this?
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Re: What is this?

Postby DukGrl » Mon Feb 01, 2010 2:12 pm

I'm pretty sure that's not a GPS transmitter but instead an identification tag called nasal disks... As in you band ducks but then you want to be able to tell them apart from a distance so you band them with different combinations of shapes and colors so you can tell individual birds apart.
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Re: What is this?

Postby deltadukman » Mon Feb 01, 2010 2:21 pm

Was it banded in Laurel, Maryland by chance?
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Re: What is this?

Postby timbertalk » Mon Feb 01, 2010 2:24 pm

yes it was
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Re: What is this?

Postby DUCKAHOLIC » Mon Feb 01, 2010 2:28 pm

deltadukman wrote:Was it banded in Laurel, Maryland by chance?



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Re: What is this?

Postby deadbird05 » Mon Feb 01, 2010 2:32 pm

I will let you in on a little secret. The band doesn't actually say where it came from. All the federal bands are made in Laurel, MD or at least the ones I have seen. The only way to find out where it was banded at is to wait to get your certificate back or to get online and look it up. I don't know the website off the top of my head but someone will post it. Get ready for a bashing but it is an honest mistake. :)
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Re: What is this?

Postby timbertalk » Mon Feb 01, 2010 2:35 pm

I can take the bashing. I just want to know what this thing is through her nose?
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Re: What is this?

Postby QUACKERS » Mon Feb 01, 2010 2:43 pm

click on the link and report by internet and it will email you the band info.


http://myfwc.com/recreation/Duck_Hunt_duckband.htm
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Re: What is this?

Postby mossyisland » Mon Feb 01, 2010 3:03 pm

It is a nasal band or nasal saddle as stated above. Just another way of tracking birds from certain spots.
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Re: What is this?

Postby quack_a_tack » Mon Feb 01, 2010 3:08 pm

Just a nose piercing.
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Re: What is this?

Postby driveby » Mon Feb 01, 2010 3:25 pm

Dang kids these days and their nose piercings!!!! I'll bet that hen had a tat right above her tail feathers too.
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Re: What is this?

Postby dliggett » Mon Feb 01, 2010 3:49 pm

mossyisland wrote:It is a nasal band or nasal saddle as stated above. Just another way of tracking birds from certain spots.

Does this nasal band or nasal saddle have a serial # like the leg bands?
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Re: What is this?

Postby timbertalk » Mon Feb 01, 2010 4:12 pm

no serial numbers that I am aware of
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Re: What is this?

Postby RLJames » Mon Feb 01, 2010 4:24 pm

Are you going to put the gps tracker on your lanyard ?
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Re: What is this?

Postby River Hunter » Mon Feb 01, 2010 4:35 pm

RLJames wrote:Are you going to put the gps tracker on your lanyard ?


:lol: thats funny
I will say that has to suck for the duck to have that $#!+ on it's bill :o
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