
How To Request Banding Data
Please provide the following information when requesting data from the Bird
Banding Laboratory.
- A justification or need for use of the data.
- Which files are to be used - Encounter Retrieval File, Banding Retrieval
File, or both.
- Type of encounter data required (recovery, foreign retrap, or return). The
Encounter File contains only selected returns (retraps in the same 10-minute
block) since 1958.
- Species, age, and sex.
- Area, (State and/or Province plus latitude-longitude if necessary) and time
period involved.
- How obtained codes desired (shot, found dead, etc.).
- Status and additional information codes desired (normal wild, hand-reared,
etc.).
- Permit number
- Your name, address, and a daytime telephone number, as well as your banding
permit number, if applicable.
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