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- From: christ@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Chris Thompson)
- Subject: Re: Pigeon bands
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.131303.7469@sci.ccny.cuny.edu>
- Organization: City College of New York - Science Computing Facility
- References: <1992Dec19.232511.3084@cactus.org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:13:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec19.232511.3084@cactus.org> ortega@cactus.org (Paul Ortega) writes:
- >
- >I found a band on one of the pigeons in the park.
- >It had the following stamped on it:
- >
- >NPA 84 RC 113
- >
- >There was also a second band on the other leg, a green plastic one
- >with the number "1".
- >
- >Just for curiosity's sake, what does the above
- >mean?
- >--
- >Paul Ortega
-
- Having spent the last few years banding birds, I can tell you that
- the band you describe is almost certainly a private band (as opposed
- to something like US Fish & Wildlife). At a guess, it probably
- stands for National Pigeon Association, or some such thing. The rest
- of it is simply a code that uniquely identifies individual birds.
-
- I'm surprised it didn't have an address or phone number to contact
- in the event of the bird being found. That implies to me that the
- bird you found was the homing pigeon who couldn't.
-
- Chris Thompson
-
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- (Help! I've fallen and I can't reach my beer!)
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