<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Try contacting <div><span style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 39); color: rgb(20, 24, 39); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br></span></div><div><span style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 39); color: rgb(20, 24, 39); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">For more information, contact Dr. Teresa “Bird” Wicks at <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline;">twicks@birdallianceoregon.org</span></span></div><div><span style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 39); color: rgb(20, 24, 39); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline;"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 39); color: rgb(20, 24, 39); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline;">They do sandhill crane monitoring at Malheur NWR</span></span></div><div><font color="#141827" face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 39); font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><u><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"></u></span></font><div dir="ltr">Clarice Clark <br><div>Puyallup, WA</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 31, 2025, at 6:07 AM, Cindy McCormack via Tweeters <tweeters@u.washington.edu> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Hi everyone!<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto" style="">I am looking for the source of a plain metal band that is not a federal band on a Sandhill Crane.</div><div dir="auto" style="">None of the usual fine identifying imprints/contact info along the borders. It is a completely smooth, plain metal band with four imprinted numbers. It is a regular butt-end band, not a lock-on band.</div><div dir="auto" style=""><br></div><div dir="auto" style="">The BBL says I must have misread the band (when seen last year), but I relocated it again on Wednesday. It's definitely a plain 4-numbered band.</div><div dir="auto" style=""><br></div><div dir="auto" style="">Interestingly enough, in the company of a crane banded in 2009 in BC as an adult, with color bands and a normal lock-on band. (It also used to have a transmitter and flag on the other leg, but it seems to have fallen off in 2023). This crane was seen seemingly unpaired and without an accompanying juvenile here in winter 21-22, winter 22-23, winter 23-24 (transmitter/flag gone).</div><div dir="auto" style="">In January-February 2024, it was seen repeatedly with the plain-banded bird. </div><div dir="auto" style="">I relocated him again this week foraging with the plain-banded bird (appeared to be female) and a juvenile. </div><div dir="auto" style=""><br></div><div dir="auto" style="">I contact BAO's Wildlife Care Center to see if they might use any similar markers, but they only use temp markers that are removed prior to release. I have someone from the International Crane Foundation trying to track this down as well.</div><div dir="auto" style=""><br></div><div dir="auto" style="">Any other suggestions?</div><div dir="auto" style=""><br></div><div dir="auto" style="">Cindy McCormack </div><div dir="auto" style="">Vancouver, WA </div></div></div>
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