While viewing the pair of Mississippi Kites from the adjacent parking lot earlier today, frequenting "their" white pine tree near the SFSP Visitors Center, a few observers including myself, thought we saw two colored bands on the female bird's right leg (we knew it was the female due to her position during several copulations with the male). The top band appeared very light colored, probably white, while the lower one appeared to be light orange in color. We did not see a metal band. We did not check the male bird as time was running short and the scope had been packed away.
To be fair there was not unanimity among the observers regarding this finding. Some weren't sure what they were seeing while a few others thought the bird had no bands. Has anyone else seen or reported the presence of bands on either of the kites? I may have missed it but I haven't read (or at least don't remember!) any reports that commented on the presence of bands. John Turner -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
