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Bird Banding Laboratory

Bird Banding Laboratory

The Bird Banding Laboratory (Est. 1920), an integrated scientific program, supports the collection, curation, archiving, and dissemination of data from banded and marked birds. These data allow for developing effective bird science, management, and conservation. The lab, in collaboration with the Canadian Wildlife Service Bird Banding Office, administer the North American Bird Banding Program.

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Bird Banding Laboratory

Bird Banding Laboratory

The Bird Banding Laboratory (Est. 1920), an integrated scientific program, supports the collection, curation, archiving, and dissemination of data from banded and marked birds. These data allow for developing effective bird science, management, and conservation. The lab, in collaboration with the Canadian Wildlife Service Bird Banding Office, administer the North American Bird Banding Program.

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Center News
A small brown, white and black bird is held by a bird bander.

EESC Scientist Leads Committee Tasked with Classifying North American Bird Species

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Preserving 40+ years of legacy bird banding records

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Unique ID bands for waterfowl

I found a pigeon with a bird band. Can I still report it?

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A small brown, white and black bird is held by a bird bander.

House Wren

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Illustration of a black-bellied whistling duck wearing a federal leg band standing, title text surrounds image in circle

Bird Banding Laboratory: What we do

Presentations and Events

100 Years of Service to Migratory Bird Conservation in North America

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Frederick Lincoln at desk

Bird Banding Laboratory History

Center News
A man sits at a table with tools, while handling a hummingbird in preparation for banding.

Employee Spotlight: Chief of the Bird Banding Laboratory Retires

Presentations and Events

Bird Banding Lab, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service—Centennial Presentation

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Location and abundance of ducks captured and banded in Suisun Marsh

How can I get bird banding and encounter data, and longevity records, from the Bird Banding Laboratory?

Center News
I female biologist uses special pliers to apply a metal band to a blue jays leg.

Employee Spotlight: Jennifer McKay

Reference Materials
What’s New at the USGS Patuxent Bird Banding Lab?

What’s New at the USGS Patuxent Bird Banding Lab?

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Report of the Federal Advisory Committee on the Bird Banding Laboratory

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Six people are sitting or standing around a USGS bird band table display talking

Bird Banding Lab Table at Latino Conservation Week

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The U.S. Geological Survey Bird Banding Laboratory: an integrated scientific program supporting research and conservation of North American birds

Center News
Small blue, gray and yellow bird is held in the hand.

Bird Banding Laboratory in the Media: The Wildlife Society

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Bird-banding Kit

Center News
A women is smiling while holding a label bag that reads "Bird Safe Philly"

Staff Spotlight: Stephanie Egger

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A women is smiling while holding a label bag that reads "Bird Safe Philly"

Stephanie Egger

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A bird in the hand, with a black back and orange chest, with brown spotting covering it's body.

Banded American Robin

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Image: Students recording bird band recovery records

Students recording bird band recovery records

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Illustration of a black-bellied whistling duck wearing a federal leg band standing, title text surrounds image in circle

Bird Banding Laboratory
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a small brown bird, with a pink bill, in the hand

Banded Field Sparrow

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Bird Banding Laboratory News

Center News
Laysan Albatross colony on Midway Atoll, Northwest Hawaiian Islands

USGS Bird Banding Laboratory curates more than 80 years of Pacific albatross banding and resighting records to build a complete dataset

Data Release
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North American Bird Banding Program Dataset 1960-2023 retrieved 2023-07-12

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Female Peregrine Falcon with visual ID band H/4 on the Long Beach Peninsula, Washington

Identifying Unusual Bands

Reference Materials
The North American Bird Banding Program: Into the 21st Century

The North American Bird Banding Program: Into the 21st Century

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A history of the Bird Banding Laboratory: 1920-2002

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The amateur birdbander: The Bird Banding Laboratory perspective

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