What functions are available in the Bander Portal for bird banders?
Use the Bander Portal to:
- View and update your contact information,
- List subpermittees, band inventory, and locations associated with your permit,
- Order bands and confirm bands as received,
- Request transferral of bands TO your permit or FROM your permit to another permit,
- Define which menu options subpermitees have permission to access,
- View tables of valid codes for various banding data fields (e.g. age, sex, etc.) and recommended band sizes by species,
- View your permit authorizations,
- Download/print your permit.
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USGS Celebrates 100 Years of Bird Banding Lab
Birds bring joy merely by their presence, from their bold colors and majestic songs to their grace as they glide through the sky. Birds contribute more than beauty to the environment and society. Many plants depend on hummingbirds and other species to pollinate them. Hawks and owls prey on rodents and other pests. Fruit- and grain-eating birds help spread plants’ seeds.
Students recording bird band recovery records
Students Anaga Nmagu and Danielle Travers, hired with ARRA funds, are converting more than one million hand-written bird band recovery records into digital format at the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. Once digitized, these invaluable recovery records will be linked to the Bird Banding Laboratory's new Oracle database for easy access by researchers and managers
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Bird Banding Supplies
Banding a Northern Parula
Placing a federal band in a Northern Parula
Banded Brown Pelican legs
Aluminum band and one plastic colored leg bands in a Brown Pelican
BBL Bandit User Manual
Bandit is the latest in a series of programs aimed at helping bird banders manage and submit their data for
banded birds. We have tried to make the process of maintaining banding records as simple as possible.
Bandit was created by the Bird Banding Laboratory (BBL) at the U. S. Geological Survey Patuxent Wildlife
Research Center, Laurel, Maryland.
Bandit
Bandit Opening Screen