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Local hunter bags 8-year-old banded mallard
Published: 12/12/2012 6:59 PM
Last Modified: 12/12/2012 7:05 PM


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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Kelly Bostian is an Iowa boy who developed a knack for writing about the outdoors as a college kid - way back when wild turkeys were scarce - at Iowa State University. He comes to Oklahoma by way of Alaska, where he worked 23 years as outdoor editor and later managing editor of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. He comes to Green Country with two beautiful daughters, an extraordinarily tolerant wife, and an 11-year-old female black Labrador retriever named Tag, who knows she's actually the brains behind everything that Kelly does.

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