Challenge yourself to identify the bands of some Laysan Ducks in the
"ACTIVITY: Laysan Ducks #2 -- Who's Who," in FOAM's menu bar above, and then check the answers in this data table.
When I looked up these bands in Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge's data base, I found out two interesting pieces of information--
- The duck with the WF band is noted as having a "big puka left foot." ("Puka" is the Hawaiian word for hole. Perhaps WF got the puka in its foot pad when it stepped on a really sharp Nohu thorn!
- RC, the duck I couldn't tell whether it was a male or female, is a male.
Some of these bands were really hard to see. The hardest one for me to see was BRT. At first I thought it was BKT, but I couldn't find that code in the data base. Next time I saw that duck, I looked more closely and realized it must be brown, not black. When I looked for BRT in the data base, it was there! If you got at least half of these bands correct, you're on your way to being a wildlife scientist!
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