Sunday, August 26, 2012
Masked Booby with Color Band off SPI!
Troy Zurovec took these excellent photos of the Masked Booby with a coded color band - one of three individuals seen off South Padre Island on the August 25, 2012 pelagic trip. I'm working on finding information on where this bird was marked, right now we're looking into potential sources in Mexico. Stay tuned!Note that the bird has the stainless steel band on the right leg and a coded color band on the left leg . The color band here is a blue band with white codes, and the code is 216. I'm hoping to hear back from the researchers on where and when it was banded, and I'll update this with that information when I get it. Many thanks to Robin and Troy Zurovec for permission to circulate these very interesting photos!
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Did you ever hear back about where the booby was from?
ReplyDeleteHere's the reply from the researcher, M.C. Marlenne A. Rodríguez Malagón, Directora de Proyecto Fauna Silvestre, Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Islas, A.C. marlenne.rodriguez@islas.org.mx, www.islas.org.mx
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Bird (216) was banded in Muertos Island, part of Alacranes Reef at 22º 25.164 N, 89º 42.943' W. It was banded on May 26th of this year (843 km away and 3 months before our observation), a beautiful recently fledged bird of 1.67 kg. It is a great news to hear that you see one of our birds. It is the first record that somebody reports.
We started to band masked boobies last September and we plan to continue at least for a couple of years. This banding program is part of a restoration project that involved invasive rodent eradication on three islands of Alacranes Reef. Reproductive success of the colony is one our major goals. So far we have banded more than 600 birds between adults and juveniles.
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To date, four color banded Masked Boobies from this project have come through my inbox! Please report additional observations directly to the researcher at the email above. If you have any difficulty reporting a Masked Booby with a similar color band, please let me know.