DOUBLE BANDED ATLANTIC BRANT

John, I would enjoy your pics much more if they were full size. You can accomplish this by downloading the full sized pictures to a photobucket account and then using the "copy image " function to copy and then paste to this page.
 
We shoot a fair amount of double banders....part of a band retention study. Both are numbered bands two different types of alloys...you'll notice one is a little more shiney and more ridged then the other....
 
Awesome. Never seen a double banded bird.
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Bill,

Some Brant were double banded using one stainless steel band and one aluminum. This was done so they could see how well the bands held up over time. It became obvious the stainless steel bands held up much better.
 
Cool. Did you call the numbers in? Wonder where it was banded and how old it was.
 
John B


Never got a double banded brant......that's a keeper for sure. 2 years ago while hunting Willapa Bay out here in Washington State, a brant landed in our set while we were busy putting the decoys out. Guns were in the cases, shells were in the dry box, and he just swam around in our set and looked at us. We both expected him to take off at any time, and we just chalked him up to one more brant that got away. My buddy uncased his gun, found some shells and nailed him. He had a paper thin band that was almost unreadable. He cleaned it up and sent in the number to the FWS...........the brant was banded 19 years earlier!!!!


If that old guy had made it successfully up and down the flyway at least 19 times, he had to be pretty smart. We figured that his odd behavior was brant dementia setting in at this ripe old age, or maybe we just looked so pitiful he felt sorry for us.
Gibby
 
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