<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hoping this brings greater awareness to all, and inspires reports!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As many of you know, it is thanks to Bud Anderson’s initiative that Red-tailed Hawks and other raptors have been tagged at Sea-Tac since 2001. Anderson and Osmek launched one of the first such programs to address bird-aircraft collisions, and of course thereby to reduce the impact on human and avian lives. After a raptor is safely trapped on a runway, placing a federal leg band would be standard, but the colored wing tag with the large number (attached through the patagium) allows observant folks to gather useful information from a distance, such as was collected last month by Kerry Tremain, detailed by Bob O’Brien and at least viewed by David Hutchinson in March. These tagged birds are ‘translocated’ 70-some miles away and released. According to Bud, “<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">very few of the translocated tagged red-</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">tails, especially the juveniles, ever return to the airport, which is exactly what we were hoping for when we first started the program.”</span> </span> P.S. <span style="line-height: 115%;" class="">Yellow
tags indicate the bird was caught as an adult; light blue tags signify birds tagged as juveniles.</span> </div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Some resources: </span></div><div class="">For the detail-oriented among you, here is an article from 2005 by Bud Anderson and Steve Osmek (of Sea-Tac airport): “Raptor Strike Avoidance at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport: a biological approach” <a href="https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=birdstrike2005" class="">https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=birdstrike2005</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sea-tac Raptor Management Program: </span><font class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.portseattle.org/programs/sea-airport-raptor-strike-avoidance-program" class="">https://www.portseattle.org/programs/sea-airport-raptor-strike-avoidance-program</a> (shows Steve Osmek)</span></font><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Birdnote: “Red-tails and Airports” <a href="https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/red-tails-and-airports" class="">https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/red-tails-and-airports</a> (<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">with a nice photo of Bud Anderson at work).</span><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Other airports have followed suit: <div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">YVR (Vancouver, Canada) Red-tails (and Rough-legged) carry a single numbered WHITE tag.</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PDX (Portland) Red-tails have an ORANGE numbered tag on both wings. </span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If observed and especially when photographed, any ‘marked bird’ is great to report. Besides contacting our local gurus at Urban Raptor Conservancy <a href="https://urbanraptorconservancy.org/contact/" class="">https://urbanraptorconservancy.org/contact/</a> one may go more cosmic and report to the USGS through the North American Bird Banding Program: <a href="https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/BBL/bblretrv/" class="">https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/BBL/bblretrv/</a> where there is comprehensive information about various auxiliary markers such as color bands and tags. Wing tags alone, as contributed by Zora Monster, may be reported by email to <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><a href="mailto:wingtaggedhawks@portseattle.org" class="">wingtaggedhawks@portseattle.org</a>.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers, all. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Elaine … in Seattle<br class="">
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