Goose Banding

June 30th - What an exciting day! Went with my 19 year old son on his job for Kansas Dept. of Wildlife and Parks to band geese. This is a yearly event and we ended up banding 140. We also tested them for the avian flu virus and recording any that already had bands from the previous year. I liken it to herding cattle. The geese are molting and cannot fly, so we had to herd them from a point jutting out into the lake and then they swam into a large holding pen. Along with my son, there were several state wildlife biologists present that directed the operation. We began at 6:00 a.m. and were finished by around 8:30.