This is the Dibolm Squadcast, presented by Dibomb Industries.

Hello, everyone.

Welcome back to the Dibomb Squadcast.

I'm your host, Ashtra Tolliver, as we make our way through the heart of the spring.

I hope you all are doing well and spending plenty of time in the great outdoors.

We all love shooting bands, but not everyone understands the significance of the information gathered from those little pieces of aluminum.

Today, I am joined on the phone by Dr. Douglas Osborne,

Associate Professor of Wildlife Management at the University

of Arkansas Monticello, and we are going to talk waterfowl signs. Dr. Doug, thanks for joining

me today, man. Yes, thank you very much. Glad to be here. Yes, sir, absolutely. What are you guys up

to this time of year there in Monticello?

Yeah, well, we're winding down from field season, banding operations finished up there in late February, early March, after the ice.

We got cleaned up.

We got a gear stuffed away for the year.

We're managing data organizing

compiling double-checking getting these data submitted to the bird banding

laboratory which it's all housed in major databases in the federal government

and so you know we caught 4,500 ducks or so this year over a

couple of week period and so just you know data quality checking and and getting that

stuff submitted so when folks start catching the birds this summer and the breeding

grounds or we start you know harvest them early next fall again, you know, all that data is submitted and ready for folks

to receive their, you know, certificate for harvesting the banded birds.

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