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In
January this year I photographed a Pied Oyster Catcher on the mud flats
at Point O'Halloran, Victoria Point. I realised the bird had a Yellow
Leg Flag and with the help of my photo was able to work out the
number(#R8). I e-mailed the Australian Bird and Banding Scheme in
Canberra at the following e-mail address: abbbs@environment.gov.au.
They were unable to identify the bird but had enough information to
contact the bander, Roger Standon. He is a member of AWSG (Australasian
Wader Studies Group) which is a special-interest group of Bird Life
Australia. He was able to tell me that the bird had been banded of
Mann's Beach, Corner Inlet, Wilson's Promontory on 26/06/2005. The
estimated age of the bird at that time was 3+.
A little bit of information from the following web site gives some interesting background about Bird Flagging.
The
program of flagging waders has revolutionised wader migration studies.
The flag is a small coloured plastic band with a tab on the end. Unlike
with banding, the bird does not have to be caught to find out in which
region it has been banded. The
program started in Australia in 1990. A flagging protocol has been
developed for the Flyway, which enables any country, or in some cases
regions within a country, to join the scheme. At
present Australia (5 locations), New Zealand (North and South Island),
Japan (3 locations), South Korea, China (Hong Kong, Yellow Sea and
Shanghai) and Taiwan are colour flagging birds.
Jean Gundry (Member of Toowoomba Field Naturalists Club)
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