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Post by gabi on Nov 12, 2016 17:12:37 GMT -8
Not sure who tags these birds.... was surprised to find this hawk today on Sumas Prairie  |
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Post by Jamie on Nov 12, 2016 17:14:48 GMT -8
Interesting! Looks like it has a leg band too.It would be interesting to find out who tagged and banded this hawk, and where its from.
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Post by nickinthegarden on Nov 12, 2016 20:31:45 GMT -8
The Vancouver airport has a removal program for problem birds. I believe these are the birds that are tagged and taken away from the airport vicinity, I seem to recall that they are taken to the Chilliwack area. I think they do the same thing at Sea-Tac also, I do not know where they take those birds.
The belief of the study is the large tags on the wings are not a problem for the bird. I have seen several of these over the last couple years mostly down in the Delta area.
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Post by zack on Nov 12, 2016 22:31:00 GMT -8
We had a Rough Legged Hawk with a tag like that in 2014, which was first reported tn the Chilliwack area.
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Post by gabi on Nov 13, 2016 10:10:15 GMT -8
So - if they are tagged do they only monitor whether they return to airport area or is there somewhere to report the tags? they sure are visible! And is the band put on by the same folk who are tagging? Fun questions.....
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Post by oldfulica on Nov 13, 2016 10:52:29 GMT -8
So - if they are tagged do they only monitor whether they return to airport area or is there somewhere to report the tags? they sure are visible! And is the band put on by the same folk who are tagging? Fun questions..... H i Gabi if you google YVR raptor control she should be able to find a contact to report your sighting. I have done it quite a few times and the responses are fast and informative. let us know what you find out. |
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Post by gabi on Nov 14, 2016 19:38:00 GMT -8
I managed to find an email from Gary Searing (Wildlife Hazard Biologist) from Airport Wildlife Management International - I sent him the pic and got a very nice long email from him. Here is a portion of it for those who are interested:
"I tagged him as a Hatch Year bird at the Vancouver International Airport (YVR) on 3 September 2016 and released it the next day in Chilliwack, BC as part of a program to prevent raptors from being struck by aircraft. Yours is the first sighting of this bird since it was translocated to Chilliwack.....We are wing-tagging Red-tailed Hawks because we need to know who our resident birds are and are co-operating in a joint program with Seatac and Portland International airports all of whom are wing tagging airport Red-tailed Hawks (using different colours for the tag material). Not only is this program contributing to air safety, we are already learning a great deal about our raptors and hope to learn much more as the years pass. To date less than 1/3 of the captured Red-tailed Hawks, mostly resident adult birds or long-term wintering residents, have returned to the airport. Less than 20% of the very hazardous juvenile birds have returned. Several of our birds have been seen in Washington State and as far south as Oregon and we have had a few birds from Washington State come to YVR. We have had one sighting of a tagged Red-tailed Hawk near Kamloops. "
I got a glimpse of this bird again today on Wells Line Road near Lamson - it flew off the minute I pulled over....
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