MAINE BIRD BAND FOUND RIDDLED WITH BIRD SHOT...VINTAGE BAND...WAS IT MURDER...OR HUNT

[mrcolorz]

Reported numbers to Wildlife Commission...Found 4 inches deep in woods...If it was not a hunted species, then could be a owl or other protected species...Waiting for info...Most likely vintage, numbers still legible.

 

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[jeff of pa]

HaHa Cool Find !
I haven't found one that was Shot at yet.

 

[Just some Guy]

Sweet Find

HH

Dan

 

[plymouthian12]

View attachment 625011View attachment 625008 Reported numbers to Wildlife Commission...Found 4 inches deep in woods...If it was not a hunted species, then could be a owl or other protected species...Waiting for info...Most likely vintage, numbers still legible.View attachment 625009View attachment 625010

I don't think its a bird band i find them all over the farm fields around here, i'm thinking more for seed sacks but ill ask a farmer to make sure

 

[Papa Bear]

I am sure that it was a hunt and that he was not leading the bird enough......

 

[plymouthian12]

iv'e literally found hundreds in the farm fields they would not have banded that many i know they look like one but as far as i remember they didn't rivet them they were pressed

 

[Papa Bear]

iv'e literally found hundreds in the farm fields they would not have banded that many i know they look like one but as far as i remember they didn't rivet them they were pressed

very true....

 

[mrcolorz]

Has been identified by Fish and Game as a earlier version of bird band, it is made of a special alloy, part monel, to not corrode, they are searching records now. It is also too coincidental that it is riddled with birdshot, I have found newer Avise bands which are Federal...This is State, just hoping they can still dig up records, hoping it is not a common bird.

 

[mrcolorz]

If you have found hundreds of them...Taxidermists buy them...However I think I know what you are talking of, and they do come off of sacks of feed, however they are probaly aluminum...and ten to one they do not have birdshot in them.

 

[mrcolorz]

Notice in picture the prefix ME-B, Maine Bird

 

[mrcolorz]

Has been identified by Maine Wildlife as one of their Bird Bands, made of a special alloy, possibly 1958, they are searching the records.

 

[mrcolorz]

The riveted bands are the early ones, most likely 1958.