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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 28, 1963)
Bird Bands Play Maj Of Habits ALTURAS - Eight hundred and seventy-nine hunters have killed 1,3ft! ducks and geese on the Modoc Wikllife Refuge south of A Itui-as since the 1913 bird season opened Oct. 8. Of the 1.3R3 birds, 12 bands have been turned in from the birds' legs at the refuge. The NovemJier figures show a seemingly small percentage of banded birds brought down, but each bird plays an important part in the over all study of the wild goose and duck habits, span of life, and migratory characteristics. The band from one bird does not set a trend, but when the bands from birds all over the work! are recorded at the Na tional Bird Banding Office in Laurel, Md., each band be comes an important clue in the picture as it unfolds. Every hunter who kills a handed bird is requested to re move the band from around the leg and cither give it to a game warden, a member of the Kish and Wildlife Service, or mail it directly to the Bird Banding Of fice in Maryland. Most of the bird banding is done by members of the Fish and Wildlife Service, but pri vate citizens and protective groups also participate in the project. On the Modoc Itefuge this year, 1BI geese were trapped and banded the latter part of June. These ficese were primarily nesting geese and their goslings, representing about one fourth of the spring hatch of goslings on the refuge. During the early fall, 1114 mal lards and lno cinnamon leal were trapped by the wildlife men and banded on (he refuge. Two hundred and eighty five shore birds and sagebirds were also banded during the fall months in conjunction with Hie fall migration. The Modoc Heftigc has been in effect three years, so the records from this banding are all relatively now. Most of the birds that have been captured in traps and found banded had been originally banded at tho Malheur Refuge in Oregon. When banding was done In June, 65 of the geese were found to be already handed. Th fact the birds had been banded at the Malheur Refuge showed a trend of the birds us ing the flyway through Burns, Ore., rather than the Tulelake 901 Main For the truly fine feminine GIFTS make sure it's a gift from WHYTAL'S . . . the gift you know that will be sure to please! THE SILK SUIT . . . ESPECIALLY RIGHT "AFTER FIVE" 69.50 Justin McCarty gives the relaxed and easy silk suit extra fashion versatility with a per fectly beautiful overblouse of finest Venice lace. For cocktails, and on to dinner ond the theotre, it's perfect. In winter whita. And Life Refuge flyway which lies more northwest. The birds trapped on the lo cal refuge in the especially built traps only stayed in the traps a few short hours. Assistant ref uge manager, Melvin Nail, ex plained that once he set up his trap, he checked it every few hours and banded and released the captured birds. This elimin ated any bird spending more than 2 or 3 hours in captivity. No bird ever spends the night in a trap, he said. The banded birds recaptured on refuges throughout the Unit ed States are reported and re corded to find their fly miles before they are released. The history of bird banding goes back as far as 1710. The irst recorded banding was on a gray heron in Germany. The heron had been banded in Tur key several years before. How ever, modern bird banding real ly had its beginning w ith Hans Christian Mortenscn, a school teacher of Viborg, Denmark. In 1899, he began putting met al bands on the legs of teals, pintails, storks, starlings, and two or three kinds of hawks. The bands had his name and address inscribed on them. As his banded birds began to appear in many places in Eu rope, ether bird students be came interested in bird "ring ing" as they say in Europe, i In 1909 the American Bird iBanding Association was formed. The only time the in terest in bird banding lagged was during World War I. In il!20 the United Stales and Can ada formed an alliance for jointly directing 'the banding of migratory birds in tlie two coun tries. Results from banding have shown that many birds live as Jong as 10 years or more. In one instance, a redwinged iBlackbird banded in New York was shot 14 years later in North Carolina. A black duck was taken 17 years after it had been TOURS START AGAIN WASHINGTON (UPII - The While House will he open to public tours again Friday. Mrs. John F. Kennedy de ckled Wednesday to allow the public to visit the executive mansion during regular visiting hours from 10 a.m. to noon every day except Sunday and Monday. Ph. TU 4-8222 it) jor Role In Span Of Wildlife banded in Ch Cod by a hunt er in Newfoundland. Trie longest recorded age of a North Amer ican bird is of a Caspian tern banded in Michigan in 1925 and shot in Ohio in 1931. Tlie Arctic tern makes the longest known migratory flight of any living species. It is known from banding remrts that tlie bird makes an annual round trip fliglit of about 25.000. It nests near the Arctic Circle and winters in the Antarctic. Bands have been returned from Niger ia. West Africa, and the Cape Province South Africa. Officials at the Modoc Refuge ask all hunters finding a band in any location to attach the band securely to a piece of hea vy writing p,-ie,r. With the band, send the following information to banding headquarters in Maryland. I. Name and address: 2. All letters and numbers of the band; 3. The date you found the hand: 4. The place where you found tlie band 'nearest Unit. with county and stale'; 5. Tell how you found the band Ion a bird found dead shot, trapped, or some other way.i All bands turned into any agency are sent to the head quarters and then processed. The pertinent data is then re distributed to the refuges throughout the United States and Canada. 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Bands turned in by hunters and sent fo the national office in Maryland pro vide information as to the habits, span of life, and mi gratory characteristics of particular birds. Here the assistant manager of the Modoc Refuge, Melvin Nai points to the band he placed on a captured duck. WMVZt?init?flf?t?tXfttXt?Sn!VftWt KKMnSSKK) ifitiSiSlXtHMUtltliiiMSiVUMUSHftUHIiSian Proposal To Move Modoc Stock mm FREEZER CA373W NOW MOPWM u SEKV CE STORE ALTURAS The first unan imous protest to moving t h e Modoc County junior livestock show from Alturas to the Ce darville fairgrounds was voiced with vigor at the meeting of the Warner Mountain 4-H Club Wednesday evening, Nov. 20. John Younger, in reporting tlie adult council's discussion on the proposal, said that the move was advocated because of the better faciltieis at the fair grounds and the decreased cost by having the show at the time of the Modoc County Fair. By sponsoring the junior livestock show at this time, the s t a t e would assume the cost of rib bons, bonds for prizes, and tlie cost of judges. He pointed out that the pres ent cost of putting on the show is $930, which is paid from the commission of the sales at the fat slock auction. Last year this NOTICE! To all our friends and customers WE WILL BE CLOSED THANKSGIVING DAY Open as usual 10 A.M. Friday WONG'S I 4ZI Main lKrmmrmmmmmrerww?mrmmm&cm' UJ 8:30 A.M. 5:30 P.M. MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY five per cent amounted to $600 as the sale total was $12,000. Some of the disadvantages, he said, could be the loss of some of the local support for the live stock sale from Alturas mer chants, and the change of the time schedule from the early June show date to late August in feeding and fitting of tlie show animals. The question of the feeling of the 4-H clubs and FFA chap ters throughout the county will be put to a vote at meetings held during the month of No vember. The results will then be reviewed by the adult coun cil, made up of one adult mem ber from each chapter. Dr. AI Baird explained that there will have to be consider able repairs and maintenance work done on the junior live stock show buildings in Alturas this vear and there is no money Show Draws Protest available at present. Rancher John Weber spoke out again.- the move, warning that the merchants in town "should be considered." "You move the sale out of Alturas and I'm afraid we will lose their support. The June three- PAGE-8D HERALD NO NEWS. Notice To Charge Customers Miller's Books are closed for the month! All charge purchases made balance of this month will not be due until Jan. 10th. Christmas shop now and pay next year! 512 Main Free Parking at 5th & Klamath day show is a help to our local businessmen." He also said that June is about the time the animals raised in Modoc County are rea dy for sale in order for them to coincide with the county's breeding season. Thursday, November 28, Klimittl Fills. Ort. 1963 a m 0 TU 4-4181 I L ve
