Something to share. One of our regional bios sent this out to all Forest Service biologists. Lynda Andrews Wildlife Biologist Wayne National Forest 740/753-0550 voice 740/753-0118 fax Visit http://www.birdhocking.com for great Southeastern Ohio birdwatching opportunities! ----- Forwarded by Lynda Andrews/R9/USDAFS on 03/30/2009 08:17 AM ----- John Curnutt/R9/USDAFS 03/27/2009 03:50 PM To pdl r9 ro wildlife@FSNOTES cc Subject vultures, vultures everywhere! In case you see a tagged turkey vulture: WING-TAGGED TURKEY VULTURES IN NORTH AMERICA ? North, Central, and South American ornithologists and birders may have opportunities to see Turkey Vultures bearing patagial wing-tags of five color combinations. Please report all sightings of wing-tagged Turkey Vultures. Include the date, location, color of the tag and its code (letters, numbers), the wing (right or left) to which the tag is attached, and the circumstances of the sighting (bird was alone, in a flock, flying or perched, feeding or roosting, etc.). East-central Alberta -- Yellow tag with black letters. Contact: RICK MORSE, 8 Gaylord Place, St. Albert, AB T8N 0S8 Canada (EM: [log in to unmask] , PH: 780-405-7389). Beginning in 2008, nestling vultures were tagged at their nests in abandoned farm buildings in a large block, east of Edmonton to the Alberta-Saskatchewan border. This study was begun in 2003 to investigate the productivity and distribution of these birds, by Wayne Nelson, Floyd Kunnas, and Dave Moore of the Alberta Fish and Wildlife Division. Nelson, now retired from AFWD, and Rick Morse, began a long-term wing-tagging project in Aug 2008. Saskatchewan ? Green tag with white letter and numbers. Contact: C. STUART HOUSTON, 863 University Drive, Saskatoon, SK S7N 0J8 Canada (EM: [log in to unmask] , PH: 306-244-0742 before 9 :00 p.m. CST). From 2003, and ongoing, more than 300 vultures in central and southern Saskatchewan, at nests in abandoned farm buildings, have received green wing-tags, in a long-term project conducted by Stuart Houston and his team of Brent Terry, Marten Stifle, and Michael Blob. Their wing-tagged vultures have been seen in Venezuela, Saskatchewan, and places in-between, and in central Alberta as a road-kill and alive on a hunter?s ?trail cam?. Soon some of these birds will become breeders and will contribute to the study?s other goals. (Some red-green color-blind people may see these tags as a dark blue, definitely not a light blue.) Pennsylvania ? Red tag with black letters. Contact: KEITH BILDSTEIN, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Acopian Center for Conservation Learning, 410 Summer Valley Road, Orwigsburg, PA 17961 U.S.A. (EM: [log in to unmask], PH: 570-943-3411 ext. 108). Long-term, ongoing study. These birds may venture into eastern Canada. California ? White tag with black letters. Contact: PETER H. BLOOM, Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, 439 Calle San Pablo, Camarillo, CA 93012 U.S.A. (EM: [log in to unmask], PH: 714-544-6147. A long-standing, ongoing project. NW Venezuela ?wintering? North American vultures ? red tag with white numbers, ALSO pale blue tag with black numbers. Contact: KEITH BILDSTEIN, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Acopian Center for Conservation Learning, 410 Summer Valley Road, Orwigsburg, PA 17961 U.S.A. (EM: [log in to unmask] , PH: 570-943-3411 ext. 108). To try to look at the migration of North American vultures from the southern end, in the North American winters of 2006-07 and 2008-09 over 300 vultures were tagged in Venezuela, with red tags at the Maracaibo zoo, and with pale blue tags at Barquisemeto, in a cooperative project between Venezuela researchers and Hawk Mountain Sanctuary researchers. We thank you for your observations! R. WAYNE NELSON (EM: [log in to unmask], PH 780-672-4363). Dr. John Curnutt Regional Wildlife Ecologist USDA Forest Service Eastern Region 626 East Wisconsin Avenue - 7th Floor Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53203 Phone: 414-297-4149 FAX: 414-944-3963 e-mail: [log in to unmask] nil carborundum illegitimi ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]