USGS: Science Topics: plant and animal tagging

Science Topics

Plant and animal tagging

Methods of attaching a tag or marker to an organism as long-term identification for study purposes.

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Bird Banding Laboratory: the North American Bird Banding Program [New Window]: Bird banding is used to study the movement, survival and behavior of birds. The Bird Banding Laboratory Site has links to the value, procedure and history of bird banding, how to report bird bands (English & Spanish), and resources for birders.
Summary and analysis of the U.S. government bat banding program [New Window]: Analysis of the program with a detailed study of the best collection of data available from it. Includes recommendations for future studies of bats.
The challenges of capturing and tagging manatees along west coastal Florida [New Window]: Description of method of capturing and tagging manatees in western Florida for tracking by satellite telemetry. Presented at a forum on telemetry.
Resources for banders [New Window]: Links to bird banding manual, banding associations, equipment and suppliers, bibliography, band size lookup, recapture database, bander services, aging and sexing birds, longevity records, Canadian atlas of bird banding and other resources.
The whooping crane report [New Window]: Report on the captive breeding program at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center to help save endangered whooping cranes. Site links to natural history information on whooping cranes, why they are endangered, cool facts on cranes, and a photo gallery.

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