Abstract
ost martin landlords get to know their birds, but I got to know mine intimately well. The only reason I thought you might find my quest attempts to know who came back when. It was madness. My colony in Severna Park, Maryland (comprised of three Trio Castles) was situated only 35 feet from the window of my home. This allowed me to see the numbers on their colored bands and tally when each bird arrived at the colony by looking at their legs through a 40-power Bushnell telescope mounted on a tripod. There could be only three numbers that ranged from 001 to 500 on either red, white, blue, or yellow plastic bands placed on the birds’ right or left feet. Easy, right? If I were Dr. Seuss, it surely would have been the inspiration for “The Foot Book: Dr. Seuss’s Wacky Book of Opposites”! Fig. 1. An adult male (ASY-M) Purple Martin that has been color-banded with Red #1 left for individual identification. A spotting scope is needed to read these bands.
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