I am kind of surprised that people can shoot wood ducks, I have no problem with the common ducks and geese being hunted but wood ducks just seem too special to me. Are there sufficient numbers of wood ducks to maintain a breeding stock? and on another note regarding carcasses, in the fall I found a pigeon(rock dove) with an aluminum band apparently from a Schenectady homing pigeon breeder, at least that is what I gleaned from the abbreviations on the band online. I tried calling but got no answer and was going to mail it the address I found but haven't gotten around to it. Now on to observing live birds.
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:13 AM, John VanNiel <vanni...@flcc.edu> wrote: > Any of those theories are possible. Let me add one more: Could it have > been a waterfowl hunter that crippled the bird and couldnt recover it for > whatever reason? > > Birds of prey will typcially breast out a bird like that. > > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --