[Tweeters] Hawk tagged

[Robert O'Brien]

Here is the photo
https://www.freelists.org/archives/obol/12-2019/jpgH5kDxaV80D.jpg
Bob OBrien


On Sun, May 28, 2023 at 6:09 PM Robert O'Brien <baro at pdx.edu> wrote:


> A few years back, on a Raptor Route near Sandy OR, I observed and

> photographed a tagged Redtail. Turns out it had been originally tagged

> (naturally) at PDX but then had been first detected about 100 miles SE.

> But it returned. I detected it 2 years later, about 10 miles due east of

> PDX, along the Columbia.  That's one reason.  Without the tags I would

> never have recognized it.  Seems this one observation is reason enough for

> tagging.. I'm sure there are  many more.  Carole Hallett would know.

> Bob OBrien  Portland

>

> On Sun, May 28, 2023 at 10:41 AM Diann MacRae <tvulture at gmx.com> wrote:

>

>> Why patagial tags in this day and age?

>>

>> Diann MacRae

>> Olympic Vulture Study

>> 22622 - 53rd Avenue S.E.

>> Bothell, WA 98021

>> tvulture at gmx.com

>>

>>

>> *Sent:* Saturday, May 27, 2023 at 6:05 PM

>> *From:* "Kerry Tremain" <kerry.tremain at gmail.com>

>> *To:* tweeters at u.washington.edu

>> *Subject:* [Tweeters] Hawk tagged

>> At 10 am on 5/27 I observed a Red-tailed hawk standing on the side of

>> the road heading into La Connor from Hwy 20. It had two distinctive blue

>> patches on its wings. Steve Hampton tells someone, he knows not who, is

>> making hawks with patagial bands and that I should report it here and to

>> the bird banding lab, but I’m not familiar with this outfit.

>> Kerry Tremain

>>

>>

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