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These are not projects of NYSOA. This information is
provided for birders who may encounter marked birds.
PROJECT UPDATE - Summary of
update from Bill Watson, July 21, 2006:
Chip Weseloh has banded over 500 Great Egrets with red left leg bands
in the last five years. More than 100 Great Egrets were colour-banded
with red plastic bands at Nottawasaga Island (near Collingwood) this summer.
The bands have various letters and numbers, in white, on them. In addition
to these birds there are about 75 Great Egrets banded in recent years
in Western NY on Motor Island in the Niagara River. Please continue
to look for Great Egrets with leg bands as described for these projects.
Please try to read the number and send it and the location to:
Chip Weseloh
Canadian Wildlife Service-Ontario Region
4905 Dufferin St.
Downsview, Ontario
M3H 5T4
Phone: 416-739-5846
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Bill Watson
771 Fletcher Street
Tonawanda, NY 14150
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Great Egrets banded
on Motor Island, Niagara River, 2002 (summary
by Bill Watson)
(Red band with white 3-digit
alphanumeric code)
On June 17, 2002 between 11:00 am and 1:00 PM, twenty nestling Great
Egrets were banded at the heron colony on Motor Island in Niagara River
by Dr. D. V. Chip Weseloh, Wildlife Biologist for Canadian Wildlife Service-Ontario
Region, Mark Kandel, Senior Wildlife Biologist for the New York State
Department of Environmental Conservation, and myself. I had requested
that the Great Egrets be color banded in the hope that we might be able
to learn something about the post breeding dispersal and migration of
these young Great Egrets. There are many possibilities. They could migrate
east through Iroquois NWR and Montezuma NWR to the Atlantic Flyway. On
July 28, 2002 one egret banded this way was observed in the Finger Lakes
region of Region 2.
Please look for Great Egrets with leg bands above the "knee"
of the left leg that are RED WITH WHITE LETTER(S) AND NUMBERS. They
also have the traditional aluminum bands on the right leg above the
"ankle." If you see any please, if possible record the letter(s)
and numbers.
PROJECT UPDATE
from
Bill Watson on NYSBIRDS-L on September 10, 2002:
[Since the twenty Great Egret nestlings were banded,] there have been
FOUR REPORTS of Great Egrets with red leg bands in NEW YORK STATE: The
first was received July 27 from Jim Kimball of a Great Egret with a
Red Leg Band matching a Motor Island code at Cuylerville, NY in Livingston
County. August 8 2002 a red banded egret was observed in Lancaster,
NY in Erie County. On September 1 (Brenda Best) and September 2 (Mike
Morgante) recorded the number-letters on the red band of a Great Egret
in the Mays Point Pool at Montezuma NWR.
Great Egrets banded on
Southern Georgian Bay (Lake Huron), Ontario, 2001
(Red band with white 3-digit
alphanumeric code)
Great Egrets were banded with coloured plastic leg-bands
on an island in southern Georgian Bay (Lake Huron), Ontario. The bands
are red with white numbers and letters, e.g. A10.
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