Banded Doves

[TJD123]

My group killed 4 banded doves on the opener. One of them was banded 6 years ago!

Are banded doves more common than banded ducks? Or did we just get lucky as hell?

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[MAG 1]

Lucky as hell, I've been hunting almost 40 years and never seen 1

 

[Aeon]

i did some quick calculations and with 10k doves killed by me in 40 years i have zero bands..... multiply that by all the guys i hunt with and its billions of doves and zero bands

 

[SDLIVIN]

Dude, play the lottery tonight!

 

[ilovesprig]

Congrats...1st banded bird I ever shot was a banded dove in Blythe...Got a 2nd one in Rancho Bernardo...Banded on the Miramar air station...John Howard had a banding program in SD County.

ps...Lots of banding done for years on or near Wister.

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[Hunter527]

Two years ago I shot a banded dove near Niland and it was banded near Niland a month earlier. That was the first band my dad has seen in all his years of hunting. I’d say they’re just as rare as banded ducks.

 

[Hunter527]

1st banded bird I ever shot was a banded dove in Blythe...Got a 2nd one in Rancho Bernardo...Banded on the Miramar air station...John Howard had a banding program in SD County.

ps...Lots of banding done for years on or near Wister.

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It would be cool if they still mailed certificates for bands, I printed mine.

 

[MAG 1]

Dude, play the lottery tonight!

Hurry

 

[SurfNHuntSD]

That's awesome, we were joking about that.. had no idea they banded doves.

 

[sdolan617]

I got one by Wister last year... It had been banded in the same area that year. 6 years is wild though!

 

[Hunter527]

I got one by Wister last year... It had been banded in the same area that year. 6 years is wild though!

I watched one dove on Sunday that flew down a whole field and about ten guys took shots at it, I’m guessing that banded dove had to pull that off a few times to make it 6 years.

 

[SAM.410]

My group killed 4 banded doves on the opener. One of them was banded 6 years ago!

Are banded doves more common than banded ducks? Or did we just get lucky as hell?

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Very cool. My friends and I have shot thousands of dove and never seen a banded dove. I didn’t even know that they banded them..

 

[Nimrod]

Congrats! Our group has killed 3 banded doves in the last 6 years or so!