Knots in the news

The Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network has a fantastic reference page, mentioned in the previous post, Birding for Banded Shorebirds - it's worth printing out and keeping a copy on hand if you bird coastal areas much.

So when I came across another note on banded shorebirds, I had to share that link again before adding an article about Red Knots (Calidris canutus) from the Corpus Christi area.

Bag 'em, flag 'em and tag 'em
Coastal Bend bird biologist tracking red knots

Keep your eyes open! Red Knots are seriously declining and research like this is helping track the populations as they migrate globally.

Birding for Banded Birds

This post was an e-mail to Texbirds in mid September, it is posted here with permission from Brent - enjoy!

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Birding for Banded Birds

Sat Sep 11 12:46:36 2010


Birding for Banded Shorebirds

Several times per year people ask how to report banded birds. Many of the banded birds that have color markers are shorebirds. It is not difficult to locate a color marked bird and the information is very useful to the researchers and can be quite interesting to the reporter.

A recent report from the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network is pasted above for your use.

A number of color marking programs in which I am familiar are for Piping Plover, Snowy Plover, Red Knot, Long-billed Curlew, Reddish Egret, Black Skimmer, Purple Martin, hummingbirds, Turkey Vulture, Black-capped Vireo.


Brent Ortego
Victoria, TX