This week we got a report of a color banded Great Egret in Fort Mill SC and learned it had been banded more than 500 miles due north on the Great Lakes. Chip Weseloh of the Canadian Wildlife Service subsequently asked me to post the following info. Please send questions or comments directly to Chip.
"The Canadian Wildlife Service has colour-banded more than 1,200 young-of-the-year Great Egrets on four colonies in the Great Lakes Basin since 2000. All birds have been fitted with at least one red leg band with white alpha numerics. Reports of these birds have come from the southeastern United States and Cuba, with one report from the Azores Islands. PLEASE check all Great Egrets seen during the winter; our winter reports have been very few for the number of birds banded. Sightings should be reported to the federal Bird Banding Laboratory and to Chip Weseloh at <
Chip.Weseloh@...>"
More info about the Fort Mill sighting and a photo of what to look for in the way of color banded Great Egrets is included at the end of my current "This Week at Hilton Pond" installment at
http://www.hiltonpond.org/ThisWeek091101.html=========
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