The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-04-08
Habits Of Our Feathered Friends
Discovered by American
Banding Society.
10000 ALREADY ARE MARKED
incredible Wing Miieae. Is Revealed
in Some Of the Reports--New Facts
About Domestic Relations of
Jenny Wren and Husband.

New York.-The habits of birds, the
ige they attain, the dispersal or dis
tribution of their young, their mating
.ustoms, the strength of the homing
instinct. the consistency with which
migrant birds return to given areas
by individual birds. and even polygamy
these and countless other problems
the American Bird Banding associa-
ton seeks to solve by methods that
leave no opportunity for questioning the
accuracy of the date.
The several hundred members of the
association have for II years been
conducting their research on large |
| scale In the western hemisphere, ana
European societies whose aims are
| Identical with those of the American
workers have been operating since
1885, These bodies of investigators
pursue their experiments by the use
of rings, bands of tags, each bearing
an inscription or return address and
serial number. The bands are usu-
ally made of aluminium and are man
ufactured in about dozen different
sizes to fit the legs of all birds from
the smallest warbler to the clumsy
pelican and the mighty eagle.
Fifty-eight thousand of these bands
have so far been made for the Amer
lean Bird Banding association, and
approximately 10000 have been placed
| Nv ,hnr Ia,r ~ m OF
birds. Each ring is stamped with the
words, Notify Am. Museum, N. y"
and following this, or on reverse side
of the band, Is a serial number. AT
the time the band is placed on the
bird the bander records on q stan
dard file card all information relating
, to the operation. These data include
; the number of the band, the name OF
the bird, its age (whether nesting
fledgling OF adulD, locality, date, name
! of bander and remarks. The bird
). having been thoroughly "catalogued,'
I Is sent un it's way.
Long Migrations Recorded.
/? Workers for the association hav
d carried bands into the remotest RI
70 gions AS members Of scientific AM
h exploring parties they have placed tn
d tags on birds in Alaska, Greenland
J. Labrador, and even In the antarctic
n thousand miles from Cape Horn.
le young robin, banded in it's nest on tn
a. lonely shores of Great Slave lake. |
rs the Northwest territory of Canad;
es has been reported from Louisian;
r. more than 1000 miles away a Ma
as sachusetts tern, or sea swallow. ha
from its birthplace, in the waters @
n the Venezuelan coast, and chime
ny swift, bird less than six inches Ion
or has been recorded at it's New Ham
he shire summer home after three Sc
ed sonal journeys to South America, |
mt volving almost incredible wing mil
tie age, the minimum distance cover
having been $4,000 miles.
be Aside from tho birds which are sy
ne tematically trapped. wild birds, eth
10 dead or alive, fall into human han
d i'm q variety of ways.
ere The longest period record thus t
the +,rrod in hiS been nroduoad hv q oo
N'' mon crow, which was banded in t
ps nest at Berwyn, Pa, May IT, 1914, a
ieu shot while stealing chickens on I
vi sixth anniversary of the date of ban
ny. ing, May II, 1920, at Phoenixville, /
ned ,,I, o,rh4 ,,;,as frop, +,,,, s,., ~