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Show Russian-banded snow goose shot in California A female lesser snow goose trapped and banded by Department Depart-ment of Fish and Game biologists biolo-gists in March of 1963 was shot by a hunter near Lem-more, Lem-more, Calif., in December of 1965. What was unusual about this bird was that it also carried car-ried a band from Russia. It appears ap-pears that this female snow goose was trapped and banded at Howell Reservoir by the Utah Department of Fish and Game and then at some later date was retrapped . by Rus- sian waterfowl workers and banded again by them. Although no definite word has been received, it is believed that the bird was trapped on Wrangell Island off the coast of Siberia in the Artie Ocean. Snow geese banded by Russian wildlife technicians on Wrangell Wran-gell Island are frequently killed by hunters in Oregon, Washington Wash-ington and California; however this is the first report of a Utah banded snow goose being involved in this movement. |