Went crow hunting today with no success, so I set out on foot to walk the land, do a little scouting, While I didn't find any sheds or such as I'd hoped, I did run up on a dead goose. Seeing how I was in the middle of a cut corn field with a 12 ga.I moved on... I don't want that pinned on me... BUT I noticed that it had a band around it's leg.... Is this something that needs to be called in to the dnr?
if it was just one band they do not pay if it has one green band and one silver band the green one is what they call a reward band and you send in the numbers to us fish and wildlife you can get some money if it is just a silver band you send in the numbers and you get a certificate telling you where it was banded
This is absolutely correct. In some cases I've heard the green reward bands have a denomination stamped on them. Either 25$, 50$, or 100$.
Back when I worked at a game bird processing facility we used to get banded birds... and the hunters didn't want the bands. I'd sell them on ebay for a pretty good chunk of change. So they used to be worth money even if they weren't reward bands.
So to people that actually hunt goose, this is like finding a bit of treasure? To me who found one laying dead in a field... unless it's green, I have no desire for it. Not even sure I can legally "Claim" it.
You bet it is! Its actually pretty rare to get one. I don't know many people that have gotten any. We have yet to, but if we ever do... I'm gonna be pumped up!
waterfowl hunters sometimes put them on thier lanyards i have been hunting waterfowl for 40 years now and i have 6 goose bands and 4 duck bands so it is rare to get one
Definitely is a rareity! I've got no waterfowl bands, I do however have 2 dove bands. Evidently they band all federally regulated migratory birds.
