UNDERSTANDING BIRD BANDING
Banding is an important
tool to the science of understanding wild birds and other creatures
of Mother Nature. It is used by all wild life rehabilitators, such as
the Geological Survey of the United States and Canada's Wildlife
Service to address population, hunting impact and effects of the
humans on bird habitats, gain information of longevity, migration and
breeding. Through the small percent of 'returns' we have learned
significant data and lessons from raptors, shorebirds, oiled birds of
spills, those birds with cases of interest, such as botulism, finch
eye syndrome and other diseases .
Rehabilitated birds have
proved they can survive back in the wild for many years. Hatched
birds show they can migrate and join into a wide flock ti south
America and back. Bands have proven brown pelicans, gulls and herons
from the Deepwater horizon spill are surviving today, some sixteen
years later.
Source: Tri-State Rescue
News Letter, Fall 2014, Newark Delaware
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