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1HELLA
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« on: April 14, 2009, 07:22:26 PM »
I work for the highways in Alberta . So we have to remove all road kill . Anyway today I found a great horned owl with a leg band on it .I have never seen a band on a owl . Yes I picked it up and being from Canada I got a mounting permit to mount it .That makes 7 horned owls that I have permits for 3 swainsons hawks , and 1 red tail ,that I have permits for , we cover a large area and we patrol the roads every day . We found a ton more Birds but they were all road pizza not mountable .I have 6 owls mounted so far will post pic soon .
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« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2009, 10:18:27 PM »
Thats it, I'm moving up!
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King Eider
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« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2009, 09:22:01 AM »
Please let us know where it was banded when you get the data back.
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« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2009, 07:01:00 PM »
Quote from: tundra mike on April 14, 2009, 07:22:26 PM
I work for the highways in Alberta . So we have to remove all road kill . Anyway today I found a great horned owl with a leg band on it .I have never seen a band on a owl . Yes I picked it up and being from Canada I got a mounting permit to mount it .That makes 7 horned owls that I have permits for 3 swainsons hawks , and 1 red tail ,that I have permits for , we cover a large area and we patrol the roads every day . We found a ton more Birds but they were all road pizza not mountable .I have 6 owls mounted so far will post pic soon .

YOU SUCK!  I AM SO JEALOUS!  ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH  I'm moving long enough to mount one...then I'll leave it up there.  Angry  I just wanna do one.  Smiley  Way cool that it's banded to boot.  Good job...and you've got a cool "job" too.  Road kills some fun stuff.  Grin
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« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2009, 08:37:51 PM »
Road kill is ok in the winter , but in the summer its not so fun . Try loading a moose when its bin there for awhile.......not so fun.................stinky . But we do find some nice bucks in the fall.....I missed 3 this fall ..nice ones but the head and horns were gone by the time I got there..
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« Reply #5 on: April 16, 2009, 12:45:37 AM »
Mike, I want your job ... minus the moose. LOL! Just finished the GHO for Calif. Show. It was road kill, but it must have bounced off the car. Great condition

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« Reply #6 on: April 16, 2009, 12:58:41 AM »
When I was going through college that is what we practiced on. The college would get so many owls and other birds of prey for educational purposes that they would give them to the taxidermy students to do. If only we could have kept them...
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