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Fri Jun-26-09 04:33 PM
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| 2. I looked through the field guide and came up blank |
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What was baffling about it is that it looked a little different than the other male scaup, but not XOMG HUGH SERIES different... all the other birds I came up with (BB Whistling Duck, anyone?) would have given this bird some interesting plumage. :shrug:
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Sun Jun-28-09 09:12 PM
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| 3. Did you check the second link? |
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Turns out it has a bill tag from a research program. I never even knew that bill tags existed!
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Mon Jun-29-09 04:27 PM
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| 4. I've seen neck bands, leg bands, and wing tags |
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but never bill tags. :shrug:
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Tue Jun-30-09 10:09 PM
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| 5. doesn't it seem like folks have gone a bit overboard with their varied ways |
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of tagging birds and other creatures for research? The last few years it has started to bother me (and I'm not someone who usually tends to react to things of this sort.)
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