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From: rac@sherpa.uucp (Roger Cornelius)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Deciphering a quarantine band
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Message-ID: <178@sherpa.uucp>
Date: 15 Nov 89 01:54:12 GMT
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Organization: Personal System Computing,  St. Petersburg, FL
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I realize this group is for bird watching (at least that's what the
newsgroups file says), but it is also the only bird related group.

Does anyone know how to decipher the info contained on a quarantine
leg band?  My vet told me the first letter denotes the state which
the bird went through quarantine in (in this case, F for Florida), but
couldn't give any more info.

I'd like to find out the date he came through, as well as any other
interesting information.  The friend who gave me the bird thought it was
approximately 1 1/2 years old, but couldn't be sure.

Roger
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Roger A. Cornelius           rac@sherpa            uunet!sherpa!rac