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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark B Bartosik" data-source="post: 3390990" data-attributes="member: 18843">Great, OvenbirdLet me put together what I do have and what I don’tI did no read these two papers (anybody have access and can share copies?)Lingle, G.R., and Sidle, J.G. 1989. Should Piping Plovers be banded?In Program and Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the ColonialWaterbird Society, Key Largo, Fla., 26–29 October 1989.Lingle, G.R., Sidle, J.G., Hecht, A., and Kirsch, E.M. 1999.Observation of banding-related injuries in the Piping Plover. InProceedings of the Piping Plovers and Least Terns of the GreatPlains and Nearby: A Symposium/Workshop, Omaha, Nebr., 2–5February 1998. Edited by K.F. Higgins, M.R. Brashier, and C.D.Kruse. South Dakota State University, Brookings. pp. 118–123..Here are papers with links to downloadLingle, G.R., and Sidle, J.G. 1993. Observations of leg injuries in thePiping Plover. In Proceedings of the Missouri River and itsTributaries: Piping Plover and Least Tern Symposium/Workshop,Lincoln, Nebr., 1992. Edited by K.F. Higgins and M.R. Brashier.South Dakota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service, Pierre,; Nebraska Game and ParksCommission, Lincoln; Platte River Whooping Crane MaintenanceTrust, Wood River, Nebr. p. 195.<a href="http://pubstorage.sdstate.edu/wfs/445-w.pdf" target="_blank">http://pubstorage.sdstate.edu/wfs/445-w.pdf</a> (the whole thing! Go to page 195)General oneCauses of Ring-Related Leg Injuries in Birds – Evidence and Recommendations from Four Field Studies<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3530577/pdf/pone.0051891.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3530577/pdf/pone.0051891.pdf</a>Best one - important paragraph copied below:C.L. Gratto-Trevor and S. Abbott (2011)Conservation of Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) in North America: science, successes, and challenges<a href="http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1139/z11-024" target="_blank">http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1139/z11-024</a>Band-related leg injuries (restricting permitting ofbanding studies)In the 1990s, leg injuries and foot losses were noted forPiping Plovers in some locations (about 6% overall, of thosere-encountered), especially on the U.S. Atlantic coast, theGreat Lakes, and Nebraska, but not North Dakota or Manitoba(Lingle and Sidle 1989; Lingle and Sidle 1993; Lingleet al. 1999). One suggestion was that sand had collected onthe inside of the (usually metal) band, causing leg injury andthat the extent of injuries might vary according to size of thesand grain in different areas of the species range. Althoughsome injuries might have been caused by 1A or 1B aluminumbands on the lower leg, which were often used in conjunctionwith other bands, there may have been other causesof injury, including full-length flags on the lower leg andlarge (size 2 or larger) color bands. Based on this rate ofband injuries, the northeast region of the USFWS bannedthe use of leg flags on Piping Plovers, then applied a moratoriumon all banding of this species in that region in 1990(Lingle et al. 1999). Until the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill,virtually no banding had been carried out in that region sincethen, which has restricted potential research projects and usefulconservation information. More recently, tall (9.1 mm)metal bands on the lower legs of birds in eastern Canada resultedin foot loss in 7% (10/140) of those birds re-encountered,compared with <1% injuries in birds marked with stainlesssteel, incoloy, short anodized metal bands, or plastic colourbands on lower legs (Amirault et al. 2006). Gratto-Trevor(2004) suggested that use of shorter, rounded edge flags,placement of metal bands on the upper leg, avoiding placementof metal bands on the same part of the leg as otherbands, and use of only size 1B or 1A color bands mightsolve the problem. To a large extent, this has been true formassive banding programs in the west, although some leg injuries(toe or foot loss) have been observed, even withoutmetal bands on lower legs of birds. For example, out of1197 adults and fledged young marked in Saskatchewanwith a short flag on an upper leg, metal on the other upperleg, two colour bands on one lower leg, and one colour bandon the other lower leg, 5 birds (3 males and 2 females) wereknown to have lost toes or a foot as a result of the lower legcolour bands and 1 bird (male) was seen with a very swollenleg. Therefore, 0.9% of the 650 birds seen in a subsequentseason had leg injuries (C.L. Gratto-Trevor, unpublisheddata). In no instance was the upper leg metal (1A aluminum)or upper leg short flag known to have caused any problems.Out of 59 birds banded with a colour band above a 1A stainlesssteel band on the lower leg (50 seen in a subsequentyear), 1 bird was found 4 years later missing the foot andmetal band. All six of the injured birds seen back on thebreeding grounds bred successfully (C.L. Gratto-Trevor, unpublisheddata). However, it is possible that use of an engravedand coded flag on the upper leg of birds might resultin even fewer band-related problems in this species, thus allowingthe issuance of permits to conduct banding studies inthe east.</blockquote>

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