Very timely message!
I find this whole thread about F&G very interesting and very timely, as just this past week I had occasion to contact them about a dead bird floating next to our dock that had two bands on his leg. One would logically assume that if a bird had been banded that someone was tracking his whereabouts.
The woman who answered the phone for F&G was, first of all, rude and, secondly, unhelpful. She was able to offer no suggestions on who to call next or how to track him and from the tone of her voice I could tell she was annoyed that I even called over a dead bird! (She was probably sitting there playing solitaire on her computer!) The bottom line....I called the Audubon Society (very friendly and very helpful) who gave me a few other phone numbers to call. As it turned out, the bird was a homing pigeon who had been released 400 miles away just the day before and was on his way back home to Biddeford, Maine.
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