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How for and in what direction will this dve go? Help us dete-mire
by sending in returns orr all bands.H AVE you ever knocked down a
sprig from among a bunch of
high-flyers, gone out and picked it up,
and been surprised to see a metal band
on its leg? Or perhaps one evening
last fall you killed a dove over your
favorite water hole that had a band
on its leg. What did you do about
that band? You probably sent the
number to the U. S. Fish and Wild-
life Service, or perhaps you are like
a fellow I talked with last fall. This
man-shall we call him Bill Jones
back in 1941, killed a bluebill carry-
ing a band. He was quite surprise
when he picked up the bluebill and
said to himself, "I'll write to the Fish
and Wildlife Service when I get home
because they want to know about
this." So he pried off the band and
stuck it in the pocket of his hunting
coat. He got home rather late that
evening and after cleaning his gamethis information
and gun h: was -oo tired to write the
letter. But he hadn't forgotten about
the band. No sir' He would write the
first thing tonrcrrow evening when he
got hame from work.
Th_ next evening as he came into
the house his wife met him at the
door with :he information that the
trout were rer_ning so he grabbed a
bite to eat, his fishing rod, and hurried
down to his favorite spot. About two
weeks later as Bob Smith, his neigh-
bcr, was telling him about the gcod
shooting he had had last Saturday,
Bill remembered the band. This time
he was not going to put it off. After
all, the Fish and Wildlife Service
needed the information that was on
that band, anc he was going to do his
part by seeing that they got it. As soon
as Bob finished talking, Bill went in
the house and got the band out of his
hurting coat - then the telephonerang. Ray, his hunting partner, wanted
him to come over and help overhaul
the outboard. He put the band on top
of the dresser and went over to help
Ray. The next day his wife dusted
and the band was dropped among a
few knickknacks in the dresser drawer.
A month later as Bill was getting a
tie clasp out of the dresser drawer
he happened to see the band and
By WENDELL G. SWANK
thought to himself, "I'd better write
a note to the Fish and Wildlife Serv-
ice one of these days." Well, until
May 1950, in the Section of Distribu-
tion and Migration of Birds of the
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service at
Patuxent Research Refuge, there was
a blank space beside the number on
that band in Bill's dresser drawer.
Long ago he had given up the idea
of writing. "That band is too old now.
They have probably forgotten all
about it. (That duck was probably
banded near the place I killed it, so
the band is of very little value.) What
good are bands anyway?" These and
other excuses had been used until last
May the band was still in the drawer
and had become just another knick-
knack.
Last February, Bill was one of those
selected to attend the Game Warden
School at A. and M. College. One of
the topics discussed in his classes was
"Why Turn in Bird Bands," and after
that discussion Bill dug out the old
band and sent the needed informa-
tion to the U. S. Fish and Wildlife
Service. What made him finally re-
turn that old band? Let's ask a few
questions and maybe we can draw our
own conclusions.
First, what information can zwe get
from a solitary band turned in by you?
Well, we know where, when, and at
what age the duck or dove wasTEXAS GAME AND FISH
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