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Bird Banding Laboratory

The Bird Banding Laboratory is an integrated scientific program established in 1920 to support the collection, archiving, management, and dissemination of information from banded and marked birds in North America. This information allows for developing effective bird science, management, and conservation. Since 1923, the lab has collaborated with the Canada’s Bird Banding Office to administer the...
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Eastern Ecological Science Center
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Bird Banding Laboratory

The Bird Banding Laboratory is an integrated scientific program established in 1920 to support the collection, archiving, management, and dissemination of information from banded and marked birds in North America. This information allows for developing effective bird science, management, and conservation. Since 1923, the lab has collaborated with the Canada’s Bird Banding Office to administer the...
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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...

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The Bird Banding Laboratory welcomes three new students to digitize legacy data

Two new students started working on the Band-Scan Project in January 2020 and a third joined in early February, through the Secondary Transition to...

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Six people are sitting or standing around a USGS bird band table display talking
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Man holds live bird of prey to display to patrons
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Two adult geese and two small, fluffy, yellow goslings walking through a grassy lawn
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An asphalt road is lined with fallen leaves and tall trees on either side framing the morning sky
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A small, yellow bird with a black face held in the hand, with a metal band on it's leg.
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A small, yellow bird with a white eye-ring, held in the hand.
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a yellow songbird with a blue-wing and black eyeline is held in the hand
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a brown-backed bird with a bright yellow eye, with a metal band around its leg
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Tail feathers are spread out and examined next to ruler.
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Two featherless gray baby birds sit on a nest of sticks
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    Illustration of a black-bellied whistling duck wearing a federal leg band standing, title text surrounds image in circle

    Bird Banding Laboratory

    The Bird Banding Laboratory is an integrated scientific program established in 1920 to support the collection, archiving, management, and dissemination of information from banded and marked birds in North America. This information allows for developing effective bird science, management, and conservation. Since 1923, the lab has collaborated with the Canada’s Bird Banding Office to administer the...
    By
    Eastern Ecological Science Center
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    Bird Banding Laboratory

    The Bird Banding Laboratory is an integrated scientific program established in 1920 to support the collection, archiving, management, and dissemination of information from banded and marked birds in North America. This information allows for developing effective bird science, management, and conservation. Since 1923, the lab has collaborated with the Canada’s Bird Banding Office to administer the...
    Learn More
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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...

    Read Article
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    The Bird Banding Laboratory welcomes three new students to digitize legacy data

    Two new students started working on the Band-Scan Project in January 2020 and a third joined in early February, through the Secondary Transition to...

    Read Article
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    Six people are sitting or standing around a USGS bird band table display talking
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    Man holds live bird of prey to display to patrons
    link
    Two adult geese and two small, fluffy, yellow goslings walking through a grassy lawn
    link
    An asphalt road is lined with fallen leaves and tall trees on either side framing the morning sky
    link
    A small, yellow bird with a black face held in the hand, with a metal band on it's leg.
    link
    A small, yellow bird with a white eye-ring, held in the hand.
    link
    a yellow songbird with a blue-wing and black eyeline is held in the hand
    link
    a brown-backed bird with a bright yellow eye, with a metal band around its leg
    link
    Tail feathers are spread out and examined next to ruler.
    link
    Two featherless gray baby birds sit on a nest of sticks
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