Band Count?

So I was just curious how many Banded birds Does everyone have? And What kind of Ducks were they ?



I have 0!

Lets hear your duck band count, and any duck band stories you wish to post...

I got one, the duck gods were on my side that day, 2007/08 seasons hunting public a metromess lake! It was the only duck I shot that day!

0 here. Only killed one duck though!

ZERO

nada, but thats a great picture

Is that good has a good one!!!! HA HA HA

Dang we had the same idea at the same time! Cant figure out how to delete a post.


But I have 0

Banded ducks = 0, Banded snow goose = 1

Back in highschool we had access to a friend of ours place that had some corn fields. We had a few big rains and some parts of the fields were flooded, so we decided to skip out on hunting my place and head to theirs for a change of scenery. I think that was quite possibly the BEST hunt of my life. Four limits of ducks (only time I have ever shot a full limit of greenheads), and four limits of snow geese. First goose I dropped was banded. Never will forget it. I wish I would have had enough sense to take pictures of that hunt back then, but the memory is more than vivid still.

7 mallards
2 woodies
7 canadas.

The ducks were all shot in the same season in California, on the same hunt club where i did a banding project the previous summer. I banded three of the mallards i shot. The rest were banded in previous years in the same general area, so I really don't consider them "trophies" but they still look good on the lanyard. Especially the 2 $100 reward bands

The geese were shot over 3 years in Michigan. Most of them came from the Hudson bay.

Nada

Dang that is kinda cool that you harvested 3 birds that you banded. Sweet

none

Did he band them after he shot them though?

I have been lucky so far in my young waterfowling career. I have 2 bands so far in 3 years. The first was a banded mottle duck that came 3 years ago on the last weekend of the season. I didnt even realize that the bird was banded till the end of the hunt. It was taken at the Anahuac Wildlife Refuge. At the time I dont think I realized how speacial that was and didnt even get it mounted but did get a couple of pics.





My second band came from a banded redhead that was taken out of Rockport last January on the last weekend of the season. The bird was taken out of a group of over a hundred redheads. This time I realized how speacial the bands are and got this one mounted. The only thing that I was upset about is that the band was to old and worn out to get any information off of.

19 Bands in 30 Duck seasons.

----------------------------------------------------------year---year
Band #-------bird------date Taken----where Banded------banded-hatch
1037-78239-Mallard-----Dec20,1980--Near Cawker City, Ks--1978--1976
1357-63023-Mallard-----Nov18,1982--11 N Mont Nebo, Sk---1982--1981
1037-68865-Mallard-----Nov7,1983---Near Milburn, Ok------1983--1982
1097-72401-Mallard-----Jan2,1984----Near Overton, Ne-----1978--1977
797-36544--Mallard-----Nov24,1987--Near Houghton, Sd----1983--1982
658-24318--Canada G.--Jan19,1992--Near Pierre, Sd--------1974--1973
2377-46131-Mallard ----Nov24,1994--7 Se Manville, Ab------1993--1993
2377-47887-Mallard-----Nov23,1996--11se Islay, Ab---------1993--1992
2387-40341-Mallard-----Nov15,1997--4 E Glenbush, Sk------1995--1995
2397-68189-Mallard-----Dec27,1997--11 S Vermilion, Ab-----1995--1994
2377-91550-Mallard-----Jan6,1999----20 W Pease River, Ab-1996--1995
0965-35882-Bw Teal----Sep11,1999--7 E Jamestown, Nd----1999--1999
1066-61032-Redhead----Nov2,2000---7 E Mirror, Ab---------1999--1998
1637-38376-Mallard-----Jan17,2001---7 W Alzada, Mt-------1999--1998
1637-38377-Mallard-----Jan3,2002----7 W Alzada, Mt-------1999--1998
1527-94526-Mallard-----Jan12,2002---Near Smiley, Sk-------2000--1999
935-25509--Woodduck--Jan15,2003---Manila, Ar------------1997--1997
1086-51478-Pintail------Nov9,2007----Jansen,SK------------2006--2005
1487-35420-Mallard-----Dec8,2007----Butler,Ok------------1997--
I was hunting a small lake next to a peanut field in Davidson, Oklahoma. Single mallard comes in and I take it. Banded Alzada Mt. Almost one year later to the day I was invited by a Ducks Unlimited Chairman to hunt his Duck Club lake near Thackerville, Oklahoma. He said since I was his guest I got first shot. A single greenhead comes in and I take it. Banded. I get to work call in the number and then enter the number in my hunting notes. I could not believe what I was seeing. I shot the very next number. Consecutive band numbers in Consectutive years at lakes 100 miles apart. I dont even want to try and figure the odds on that.
They are the Third and Fourth bands from the top Right.

none yet

sweet!

Beautiful display Yentzen

That's awesome Yent. Nada for me.

3 mallards

10 tottal

7 mallards

2 pintail

1 redhead

none yet in three seasons

zip for me

Are you supposed to keep those things? I always just throw them away with the duck.

You guys actually keep the little leg bands?

I've probably thrown a dozen away.

none yet, dam nice display yent. you needa let some of them make it to Tx for the rest of us!

Just got into duck hunting about 3 years ago and i'm still waiting for my first band. Can't wait!!!!

32 years. 1 band. Last year.
Hang in there....

I have two, both woodies. The last one I killed while taking my wife's cousin for his first duck hunt. We sat on a beaver pond, that is about a mile walk, for three hours. We seen some come and go but not close enough to shoot. It's about a 60 acre pond.
When we got ready to leave he wanted to shoot and just see what would get off the water. He fired one shot and three woodies got up about 150 yards away and started flying straight at us. when they got close enough I dropped the one on the right and dropped the one on the left. Mine was banded. Talk about dumb luck right.

This is my 3rd season and i got one during my first Teal season.

I got my first band last year on the first Specklebelly I ever shot. It was a bonus bird, as we were out crane hunting that morning. Now, if I could ever get the taxidermists to finish it...

I don't know how many but I am guessing in the 20s. I always gave them away or had them taken away. I shot a double on two geese and both were banded with $100 reward bands. It was a video shoot and I waas a guest that did not have to pay to hunt. We hammered the snot out of the geese but the guides took my bands. I just didn't feel right about creating a stink. The others were givin to the customers when I was doing guide service. That just aint for me anymore, believe me it gets old. I have one that is cherished. It was a banded woodroe killed on the ranch I am going to this weekend. It was just me and bull hunting and he dove under water for about 20 seconds to get the bird. So nopbody could throw a hissy about that band.

Zero. Been busting ducks for dang near 14 years.... I have yet to kill a banded bird. I haven't missed a season. Killed more birds than I could count but not one banded.

18 years of duck hunting, 3 bands the last five years. Wood duck in Athens, Teal in Gueydon,La., and a Mallard in Ok last year. Me and my group kill 300-460 ducks per year and have 5 bands between us all the last 5 years. Its not easy.

1 band - GWT Drake - Kansas - in my 4th season (current season).

Zero

This is my tenth duck hunting season and no band. My best friend started duck hunting last year and I took him out new years day, sure enough he shoots a banded gwt. A few weeks earlier I took a father and his son out on a hunt and the little terd shot a banded hen mallard. One day....

1 mallard, 2 specks and 1 canada. The Canada had the orange neck band also.

I shot my first banded duck on opening day this year, a gadwall hen. Most of the numbers were worn off, so i sent it in for possible ID. I have now shot a banded alligator, turkey, and duck.

I've killed over 2000 ducks, and only one band. Greenhead in a Se AR rice field.

Dad's been hunting 25 years and only has two. Had a twenty year dry spell in the middle.

this is my 11th season, and no bands yet......

2 canadas and 1 speck, seen a couple banded ducks killed but not one of my own yet.

8 ducks seasons and not one band nor have I been on a hunt where a band was taken.

0 Nothing yet. I might help if I killed more of what I shoot at

5 bands. All mallards.

1 banded pintail in my first "real" season (this season)

shot lots of birds in louisiana and texas this year got no bands

1

2 bands. one off a mottled duck on the coast and one off a ross goose that was 9, on the coast. my brother once got a specklebelly that was 11 years old and had a big dent in it from the bb.

In 20 years of hunting ducks and geese! I have:

5-Woodduck bands
4-Pintail
12-Mallard 3 shot this year!
1-Canvasback
15-Snow geese
22-Canadian geese

And still have snow goose season coming up!!! FEB 1

By the way I live in Arkansas and hunt around stuttgart Arkansas!

1 band this year off a mallard.

Buddy of mine shot a band last week with a bible quote. He asked me what I thought and I told him he needs to go to church. Anyone heard of this?

Yes they are Jack Miner bands!! A great kill congrats to your buddy!

Three total.

Greenhead
Mottled Duck
Snow Goose

All way too long ago.

jasb, get your buddy to check here for info on reporting his band

http://www.jackminer.com/Recovery.html

Nice jewelry box ya got going. None for me......yet.

19 years of duck hunting and 0 bannes for me

Had a nice surprise in the mailbox today...got the info from the band I shot a few weeks ago. Greenhead banded in Tilley Alberta in 2008, hatched 2007 or earlier.

This year 09-10
mallards - 3
Small canadas - 2
Big honkers - 1
Snows - 2

But spring snow goose hasnt started yet ! And collar hunting we will go !!!

I have two banded mottled ducks...First was killed in Hankamer off of a WRP pond that was 2 years ago...Second was killed this season and this one means the most as it was killed on my families property that has struggled to produce good amounts of birds, and my 1.5 year old lab retrieved it for me...it was also his first time to retrieve 2 full limits of ducks....My brother's second ever duck he killed was a banded blue wing teal...

You personally shot 8 bands this year? Do you hunt everyday, guide, or what?

Been duck hunting since I was 16 and I am 35 now and still NO BANDS!!!

1 band this year, my first, a gadwall hen. I have now shot a banded alligator, turkey, and duck. Next up, goose and dove, then the circle will be complete.

Three for me

Redhead
Canvasback
Mallard

Does it get any better than a banded Can?

big ole goose egg. i would like to get some snows this year though

Ended the season with 2 bands - the one above, and a Mallard Drake in Cappy's neighborhood(see below).

WHen I was a kid I used to hunt with my buddies dad at College Port. The lease was called "Webfoot" It was like 40k acres or something and it backed up to mad Island NWR. We used to have blinds built on the fence line of Mad island. On a good morning, we would literally pick out the banded snows to shoot. Never did see a neck band back in the mid 80's. Anyway that friend died in a motorcyle wreck several years ago, and I put my lanyard with all my bands on it in his casket.

Snow goose = 53
Ducks = 0

still waiting for my banded bootlip

got 1 banded spec and a banded dove. my boss shot a duck a few years back with a gps backpack it was pretty cool.

Still waiting for a Band

Still waiting here too!!! I was one shot short on this one

ive got 4

been huntin 10+ years only got one band, blue wing teal 2 years ago, killed alot of ducks this year but no bands

RideNHigh, awesome pics, thats a sweet looking Canvasback you got there

Zero! 30 years of waterfowl hunting and no bands. I've never seen a banded bird taken, either.

There's always next year.

1 - Mallard
1 - Wood Duck
1 - Dove (if that counts)

My roommate shot his first banded bird this year... Wood duck as well

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3 Bands.

First was a snow goose that was 13 years old.
Next was a Mottled Duck drake.
And the last was a Speckledbelly goose.

I have been on hunts where banded birds were shot in the group. One was a Mallard drake, a Redhead drake, a Redhead hen and a Mottled duck drake.

My ultimate trophy would be a banded Ruddy duck.

I was thinking mine was like a coot! Maybe a banded
park duck, one of those big ugly ones. Lol

[quote=duckin crazy]got 1 banded spec and a banded dove. my boss shot a duck a few years back with a gps backpack it was pretty cool. [/quote I can't believe no one has quoted on this one. A gps backpack? Are you kidding? I have never heard of that.

Just double checked- still have ZERO.

well im suprised this is my second season and i have a grand total of



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lol hopefully as my water fowling increases the bands will come with them

x2

25 years, 2 bands. widgeon in 93 and bwt in 99. buddy got three clean misses on the widgeon but failed to dodge my 870 after he was empty. i still tease him bout that every time we go.

Got 1-Greenhead

I'll have to find my list...but 20 or so...

I typically shoot 1 or 2 a year...

Mostly Mallards...

J.J.

3 , all were mallards

My uncle said only the dumb ducks get caught and banded.

I got one lap band from a BBW at the Gold Club last year.

where about in cappys neighborhood cuz i live about 3 miles from him...