By KELLY BOSTIAN Outdoors Writer on Dec 12, 2012, at 6:59 PM Updated on 12/12 at 7:05 PM
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GORDIE MONTGOMERY/Courtesy
It’s not often that a hunter shoots a duck with a band more than a couple years old on its leg, but it certainly does happen.
Local guide Gordie Montgomery reported that hunter Michael Phillips of Sapulpa, his father and two of his brothers killed an 8-year-old banded drake mallard as a group of five ducks descended on their blind north of Tulsa this weekend. The hunters shot and all five ducks fell.
Not knowing which hunter killed that one particular mallard, the brothers flipped a coin and Michael, with the odd coin, was declared owner of that bird.
Montgomery said the band information came back that the bird was banded in Alberta, Canada in 2005 and was hatched “2004 or earlier.”
According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service web site the oldest known waterfowl banded in North America was a Canada goose that lived to be 30 years and 4 months old and the oldest mallard lived to 26 years, 4 months.
“Can you imagine how many different decoy spreads that bird saw?” Montgomery said.
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