Solutions to Blue Band & Monitoring Our Banded Peregrines

29 Could 2025

Listed here are some solutions to your latest questions concerning the Pitt peregrines’ bands.

The Blue Band: This week a blue band confirmed up on the nestbox gravel and a number of other of you requested if it had come from one of many peregrines. No, the blue tape remains to be on the feminine chick.

In actual fact it’s not a peregrine band. Ted Nichols noticed it are available on the leg of a prey merchandise the chicks ate earlier this week. It might have been on a northern flicker.

Band studies: Will we hear the place these banded chicks go later in life?

The USGS Chicken Banding Lab (BBL) is the repository for all chook band knowledge. When birds are banded the bander sends the numbers to BBL. When a band sighting is reported to BBL, they report the sighting to the bander, on this case the PA Sport Fee. Ultimately I hear about it and report it on the weblog. BUT …

The banding system is about to break down. The “Large Lovely Invoice,” which handed the Home on 22 Could, will eradicate BBL and its dwelling, the Japanese Ecological Science Heart in Laurel Maryland.

“The U.S. Geological Survey’s Patuxent Wildlife Analysis Heart in Laurel, now referred to as the Japanese Ecological Science Heart, will probably be closed if the Congressional funds passes in its present type [NOTE: it passed on 22 May],” stated Gregg Petersen, president of the Howard County Chicken Membership. “The middle was began in 1923 and have become the gold normal for wildlife analysis for the world.” It’s dwelling to the USGS Chicken Banding Lab, which provides bands and manages banding knowledge on a nationwide degree.

— Enterprise Month-to-month: federal cuts might finish wildlife analysis labs in Laurel, throughout U.S.

If the invoice passes the Senate in its current type, the BBL will shut and there will probably be no nationwide coordination, assortment and reporting of banding knowledge. So we won’t hear about our banded birds sooner or later.

Maybe your Senators don’t know concerning the significance of BBL. They’re most likely busy, although. The BBL is small potatoes in comparison with the larger points within the Large Lovely Invoice.