Ep. 105 California Duck Banding: Klamath Night Lighting, Pintail Nets & Why Reporting Matters

Podcast: Save it for the Blind Podcast · California Waterfowl

Opublikowano: 2025-10-27

Jeff sits down with Brian Huber and Jason Coslovich to unpack this summer’s banding push and preseason pintail work—what changed with more water on the landscape, how night-lighting in the Klamath Basin actually happens, and why your band reports keep California’s harvest models honest. What’s inside Sac Valley bounce-back: swim-in traps, summer water, and a strong run of molting mallards and wood ducks.Klamath after dark: airboats, spotlights, big crates—plus what red-painted bands mean and how crews avoid re-capturing fresh birds.Transmitters 101: what they reveal about nesting and molt, the tradeoffs for differ...