2006 - Midwest Peregrine Falcon Restoration Project

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All peregrines banded in the U.S. Midwest (ND, MN, WI, MI, SD, NE, IA, IL, IN, OH, KS,
MO, KY) in 2006 wear a bicolored project band, black over green on the left leg. Wild-produced
birds have a purple anodized USFWS band on the right leg; hacked birds have a gold anodized
USFWS band on the right leg. In Canada (SE MB, NW ON), hacked birds receive a red band and
wild-produced birds get a black band, in addition to a silver USFWS band. Project bands are
intended to be readable in the field, given the right circumstances and appropriate optics (see article
by Tordoff included in this report).
Many of the black/green and black/red bands (from earlier years) have the upper or lower
character (or both) tipped to the left on its side; these we show by using a star (*) to indicate the
tipped-over letter or number, for example, *2/E or H/*4. It is essential to include the star because all
combinations are in use (H/4, *H/4, H/*4, *H/*4 for example). It is also important to put all bands
on right side up, to make them easier to read in the field. To avoid confusion, numerals take
precedence over letters; that is, numerals 1 and 0 are used on the project color bands, letters I and O
are not used.
We cannot change names of localities in the peregrine database when the names of buildings
or companies change. The original names are entered in the database in too many places. Incomplete
corrections would confuse searches for data. The same goes for individual birds—once named and
entered, the name sticks.
Authorized users may download the contents of the database into an Excel spreadsheet. This
is accomplished by clicking on the “submit data” link, then at the top of the banding information
table, click on “Output birds for FileMaker "Peremain" import.” This will generate a transition file,
which you should save. Then open this file with Excel, and select the delimited with comma’s
option, click “finish”, and you will have the file in a spreadsheet format.