[mou-net] Banded bird mystery solved

The answer is ... PURPLE MARTIN.  Kelly Applegate banded purple martins at Meadowview Park in Elk River with red bands.  My feather book confirms that these could definitely be purple martin, so guess the mystery is solved.  Hooray!   Thanks to everyone who weighed in!  And especially to Kelly!

[mou-net] Sherburne Feathers

Intact feather is 4.25 inches long, btw.   Betsy Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html

[mou-net] banded birds - odd question

Is anyone out there banding songbirds with an orange colored band on one leg, and FWS band on the other?  Odd question, I know.    A woman found a dead bird in her Princeton yard, put it in a plastic bag, and her husband dropped it off outside our Sherburne Refuge HQ front door on Sunday evenin

[mou-net] juvenal Bank Swallows/Rice Co.

Hi All-- I've posted a photo of juvenal Bank Swallows on my blog-- http://dantallmansbirdblog.blogspot.com--as far as I can tell, this plumage lasts about two months and is not illustrated in field guides (at least in Sibley or the National Geographic guides). The birds are from NW Rice Co. near N