Banded White-faced Ibis
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Colleen at Idaho Game and Fish writes, in wondrous promptness:
“That is definitely one of ‘our’ birds, the first to be spotted alive by someone not specifically looking for them! That bird was banded on July 7, 2008, as a nearly-flighted juvenile, at Mud Lake Wildlife Management Area, about 25 miles northwest of Idaho Falls, Idaho.”
Colleen tells me that about 150 White-faced Ibis were banded at that site; information about reporting those color-banded birds was published in last fall’s Idaho IBA newsletter. (Thanks to Rachel and to Mark for pointing that out!)
What’s even more interesting to me as a birder is that this individual had attained adult-like eye and face colors by mid-September, while so many others in the flock we were watching had not. Trickier and trickier!
