There are few things as exciting to waterfowlers as harvesting a banded bird. Shooting a banded bird a rare occurrence, and provides an everlasting memento of that hunt, which makes a great ...

They are small, simple bands of aluminum, most of them, with an eight- or nine-digit number boldly indented along their length and a few words and numbers in smaller script crammed above and below.

That silvery band around a bird’s leg is much more than a simple ring of aluminum. “There’s almost an entire history in each band,” said bird bander Meredith McBurney of the Rocky Mountain Bird ...

2016 marks the 100th anniversary of the North American Migratory Bird Treaty -- and the modern era of the bird banding program. While primitive, the simple metal anklets are one of the most valuable ...

CASSCOE — Gently, oh, so gently, Tana Beasley held the ruby-throated hummingbird. The bird was wrapped in a disposable footlet sock, the kind used when trying on shoes. Beasley held the bird in her ...

' Merlin Bird ID ' is an app released by Cornell University that identifies bird species from their calls and photos. It looked useful, so I gave it a try. Merlin Bird ID is available for Android and ...

A small group of biology and environmental science majors at Rochester Institute of Technology are learning the art of bird banding at the Braddock Bay Bird Observatory this fall in a class offered ...