Banded Peregrine

[Charles Duncan]

Editing today's photos from Scarborough Marsh-Eastern Trail pannes, I notice that the Peregrine that we saw repeatedly (but unsuccessfully) hunting shorebirds is in fact banded with a dark-green band on the lower left leg.

Does anyone know who might be banding Peregrines and if a report like this would be useful.  Needless to say, any numbers on the band aren't legible in my photos.

[Raymond Brown]

Is that a juvenile bird with vertical streaking on its breast?

At first I was hoping it was one of the peregrines that I helped to raise on Borestone Mountain in 1990 with a green band, then I realized, that was 30 years ago, the oldest known peregrine was 20 years old, and . . . dang I’m old!

—RayBrown—

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On Aug 20, 2020, at 4:43 PM, Charles Duncan <Charles....@gmail.com> wrote:

Editing today's photos from Scarborough Marsh-Eastern Trail pannes, I notice that the Peregrine that we saw repeatedly (but unsuccessfully) hunting shorebirds is in fact banded with a dark-green band on the lower left leg.

Does anyone know who might be banding Peregrines and if a report like this would be useful.  Needless to say, any numbers on the band aren't legible in my photos.

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[Bill Hancock]

The female peregrine that nested on the Dragon quarry cliff in Portland this summer (albeit unsuccessfully) had a green band on her left leg.

Bill

On Aug 20, 2020, at 4:43 PM, Charles Duncan <charles....@gmail.com> wrote:

Editing today's photos from Scarborough Marsh-Eastern Trail pannes, I notice that the Peregrine that we saw repeatedly (but unsuccessfully) hunting shorebirds is in fact banded with a dark-green band on the lower left leg.

Does anyone know who might be banding Peregrines and if a report like this would be useful.  Needless to say, any numbers on the band aren't legible in my photos.

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[Charles Duncan]

Thanks, Bill.  The Peregrine at Scarborough Marsh is a juvenile, so not the same individual.  

Erynn Call at MIF&W sent me a link saying “a bi-color band is fitted on the falcon’s opposite leg [from the USGS metal band] and includes a field-readable alpha-numeric code. Falcons in the Eastern US are banded with either BLACK over RED (1989-2004) or BLACK over GREEN(2000 – present). 

So all we learn is that the Dragon Quarry bird was banded sometime since 2000.

—C.

[Raymond Brown]

This isn’t exactly relevant to the present conversation, but may be of interest to some. The peregrines that I “hacked” while working for Charlie Todd in 1990 all had individual color codes (in addition to the aluminum USFWS band) so we could tell them apart. The one I named “Swede”, for example, had yellow and light blue bands, like the Swedish flag. The big tundra subspecies female I named “B-52” had red and black, and the one I named “Kenny” after my brother had 2 yellow bands, as yellow was my brother’s favorite color (and the bird had a personality like my brother).  So there’s an exception to every rule. I forget the other young falcons’ names and color codes right now. 

—Ray—

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