Mark B Bartosik
Well-known member
Hi All,
Up to yesterday I have never seen banded/tagged Sanderlings on Upper Texas Coast. And on May 15 two of them popped up. With a green ANF: EEJ and EEN. EEJ was also VHF radio tagged with antenna about body length of the bird. As metal USGS bands were easy to read I reported them and … surprise. These bands were not reported by a bander… I didn’t know that one can applied USGS bands and do not report them to the database. Not a big deal as banded Sanderlings data have a little value to me but it would be interesting to know more about these birds. BTW I am sure that, sooner or later, USGS will send me back barding records. I suspect that somebody is using the Motus Wildlife Tracking System using VHF radio transmitters.
Photos
http://www.pbase.com/mbb/image/163234148/original
http://www.pbase.com/mbb/image/163234144
Video clip
https://youtu.be/xb7TohPjFV4
Cheers,
Mark
Up to yesterday I have never seen banded/tagged Sanderlings on Upper Texas Coast. And on May 15 two of them popped up. With a green ANF: EEJ and EEN. EEJ was also VHF radio tagged with antenna about body length of the bird. As metal USGS bands were easy to read I reported them and … surprise. These bands were not reported by a bander… I didn’t know that one can applied USGS bands and do not report them to the database. Not a big deal as banded Sanderlings data have a little value to me but it would be interesting to know more about these birds. BTW I am sure that, sooner or later, USGS will send me back barding records. I suspect that somebody is using the Motus Wildlife Tracking System using VHF radio transmitters.
Photos
http://www.pbase.com/mbb/image/163234148/original
http://www.pbase.com/mbb/image/163234144
Video clip
https://youtu.be/xb7TohPjFV4
Cheers,
Mark