Whoops no usgs band. Misremembered. Does the other leg have a band? Still might be worth reaching out to usgs.
I googled for a bit and found this information on color banding Raptors. It doesnt look like one of their bands but golden gate might know other folks doing research. https://www.parksconservancy.org/article/hawk-color-bands-san-francisco-marin-red-tailed-hawks-coopers-hawk Megan On Fri, Mar 12, 2021, 8:59 AM Megan Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Did you contact the USGS? They have a website to submit band numbers. It > looks like it's a field readable band in addition to the usgs band. There's > a variety of reasons it has two bands. > > Megan > Denver > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021, 8:47 AM Tony Kay <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I already checked with High Plains Falconers and it is not one of theirs. >> It is an interesting band though, not the standard type? >> >> Tony Kay >> >> Denver >> >> >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On >> Behalf Of *Scott >> *Sent:* Friday, March 12, 2021 7:25 AM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* Re: [cobirds] Red-Tail with a plastic band--looking for info >> >> >> >> It may be a falconers bird that has escaped >> >> Scott Rashid >> >> On 3/11/2021 11:25 AM, Stephen Price wrote: >> >> There has been a red-tail hawk hanging around my neighborhood in Longmont >> this winter. I noticed that it had a plastic band on one leg, and reported >> it to the Bird Banding Laboratory. The BBL couldn't give me any info about >> when or where the bird was banded because I don't have enough information >> for them. The bird is either lacking a metal band, or the metal band is >> placed way up high on the leg. >> >> >> >> The plastic band is dark brown or black with yellow numbers. It has a >> yellow stripe near the top. Above the stripe it says "CO" in very small >> letters. The numbers I have seen are >> >> >> (5 or 6) (blank) 585 (blank) 5 >> >> >> >> It might have "585" on both sides of the band, or else maybe I have only >> seen the band from one side. >> >> >> >> I have taken numerous pictures of the band. 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