Doug and members,
    Last year we had a white pigeon come to our yard.  We were able to 
capture it using a box tipped up with a stick/dowel with string attached. 
We put food, cracked corn in a dish, to attract it.  You need to know the 
full number on the band in order to find the owner.  It may be a racing 
pigeon that strayed off course.  NH Audubon had a page on their website: 
www.nhaudubon.org/naturalist/bandedbird.htm.  Also try www.npausa.com.
    Hope this helps.
    Joyce
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From: "Doug Hardy" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 8:25 AM
Subject: [UVB] northern waterthrush, exotic pigeon


> Very limited pre-school bus birding this morning revealed a NORTHERN 
> WATERTHRUSH in our yard, aggressively chasing away finches.
>
> Visiting our equines is an apparent exotic pigeon. Both legs are banded, 
> as can be seen in the image linked below. I know nothing about them, but 
> am wondering whether there might be an owner looking for this bird? A 
> number on the orange band ends with ...828.
>    <http://www.geo.umass.edu/climate/doug/pigeon-6522.jpg>
>
> Doug & Spencer Hardy, Norwich
>
> Observation date:     9/4/08
> Number of species:     1
>
> Northern Waterthrush     1
>
> This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org/vt)
>
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