The USGS does NOT allow banding of Rock Pigeons, which are not only not native birds but are feral or owned, rather than genuinely naturalized. And the Bird Banding Lab does not keep records of ownership of pigeons.
To track down owners of pigeons, this website may help. http://www.pigeon.org/lostbirdinfo.htm Best, Laura Erickson On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Jeremy Powers <[email protected]> wrote: > It may, as you say, belong to someone because people can own pigeons for > racing, etc. However, it may simply be a bird that was banded in a bird > banding program. At Springbrook we band anything we catch that we are > entitled to band, which is anything besides a hummingbird or waterfowl. I > know it is not on of ours. With rare exception, we don't use colored bands. > Just the silver aluminum. > > Report it here, either way: > https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/bblretrv/index.cfm > > You should hear back in a couple of days. > > Jeremy Powers > Fridley > > -----Original Message----- > From: Minnesota Birds [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charlene > Nelson > Sent: Monday, June 01, 2015 3:20 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [mou-net] Banded pigeon any idea how to find owner > > Aug 2014 vik208 yellow band rt leg. Plain green band in left leg > > Morris Stevens County > > Charlene Nelson > > Sent from my iPhone > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > -- Laura Erickson Duluth, MN For the love, understanding, and protection of birds There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of birds. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter. —Rachel Carson Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
