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“Notes from the Field” are contributed articles that highlight current banding projects and the continued importance of bird banding 100+ years after...

By Gustave Axelson, Photos by Sparky Stensaas

Living Bird Magazine, Winter 2025

After a 2019 study identified major losses to North American bird...

A collaborative story with USGS and USFWS focused on the importance of reporting waterfowl bands.

By Timothy B. Wheeler

Bay Journal, December 13, 2024

A widely publicized study pointing to a shortage of Atlantic menhaden as the cause of osprey nest...

“Notes from the Field” are contributed articles that highlight current banding projects and the continued importance of bird banding 100+ years after...

Highlights from the USGS Bird Banding Lab (BBL) 2024 fall migration station.

By Mason Wheatley

USFWS, November 2024

In the cold of February, a bird was found dead on the sidewalk of Philadelphia, killed after colliding with a...

In July 2024, the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Eastern Ecological Science Center (EESC) at Patuxent Research Refuge wrapped up a project to replace...

The EESC Bird Banding Laboratory has completed a project to digitize over a million legacy bird banding paper records from the 1960s to the early...

By Erika Zambello

Audubon Florida, July 17, 2024

Reported bird bands provide critical data to researchers, land managers, and policy makers.