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Georgia Banding Schemes:
2004 - Present: Duplicate Red bands on upper legs with 2 White engraved letters/numbers
2003:
Upper Left: USFWS metal band
Lower Left: No band
Upper Right: Large engraved Red band with a single letter
Lower Right: Green
2002:
Colors used: Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, White, Black, Orange
Upper Left: Orange over Green
Lower Left: one color band
Upper Right: USFWS metal band over one color band
Lower Right: one color band
More pictures from the Georgia project by Brad Winn:
PARTICIPANTS
Georgia Department of Natural Resources
University of Georgia
CONTACTS
Brad Winn – Georgia DNR, Coastal Resources Division
Sara Schweitzer – Warnell School of Forest Resources at the University of Georgia
Joe Michael Myers - Warnell School of Forest Resources at the University of Georgia
John Sabine – Warnell School of Forest Resources at the University of Georgia
PROJECTS
Effect of Disturbance and Predation on American Oystercatchers During the Breeding Season, Cumberland Island National Seashore, Georgia, 2003 
John Sabine, J. Michael Myers, and Sara Schweitzer of the Warnell School of Forest Resources at the University of Georgia are currently studying oystercatchers on Cumberland Island.
Article in UGA Research Magazine, Summer 2001
Oystercatcher research at the University of Georgia
Banding, Georgia DNR
All Georgia birds, other than chicks in 2001, have been banded from one general area with 4 specific locations. The general area is the mouth of the Altamaha River. We have banded on a shell bar near the south end of Sapelo Island, on the south bar of Wolf Island, on the north end of Little St. Simons Island, And on the south end of Little St. Simons Island. Based on re-sightings, oystercatchers fly between all of these locations regularly. We use a net propelled by two canons to capture small flocks of roosting birds during the non-nesting period (September-February).
Pictures of known-age oystercatchers, 2003:
Most of Georgia banded re-sights have been during the non-breeding season, and in locations in general proximity to the banding sites. We have re-sighted roughly 75% of the birds we have banded. We have a situation of large fall flocks (200-600 birds) at the mouth of the Altamaha in the fall (Sept.-October), dispersing into smaller flocks for the winter from Cape Romain to Cumberland Island. Re-sights temporally and spatially outside of our banding efforts include:
1. Breeding male on Little St. Simons Island GA, 2002 and 2003.
2. Breeding pair on Little Egg Island Bar in the Altamaha River GA, 2003. This pair was captured in the same net in September 2002. Humorous speculation is that they "met" under the net, then bred locally.
3. Same net as #2 had an adult female that bred all the way up on Muskeget Island near Nantucket Island in Massachusetts in 2003.
4. Two GA birds wintering at Cape Romain Refuge winter 2002/3, and one fall 2003.
5. Subadult female on Cumberland island during summer 2002.
6. One subadult bird seen as a transient on the shore of NJ in spring 2002.
7. One adult bird seen as a transient on the NJ shore in the spring of 2003.
8. January 2003 re-sight on a shell bar behind Cumberland Island of a bird we banded in Sept. 2002.
We have seen both adults and subadult AMOY banded in NC and SC in Georgia.
The linked Excel file contains a current list of color band combinations and re-sightings for birds banded in Georgia. Banding data were provided by The Georgia DNR. This dataset should not be published or distributed without permission. For more information contact Brad Winn in the Georgia DNR, Coastal Resources Division
The map below shows locations of color-banded oystercatchers re-sighted in Georgia. Click on a location to enlarge.
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