Dove with banded leg

My brother shot one on September 23rd. Anyone else killed a banded dove yet? He called it in and they told him it was released in Fairview on 1/1/17. He killed it around stouts mountain between hanceville and dodge city.

Yes

I killed one this year. Banded within 5 miles of where i killed it a month earlier

I killed one a few years ago.

Cool. In the 35 years I've bird hunted I've never seen a banded dove. Congrats

I just found out they band them the other day. Said they band about 1500 a year in Alabama. Congratulations

We got one this year that was handed in Fairview last year. We were a couple miles from where it was banded.

I’ve killed one before

Been hunting doves for at least 30 years and have averaged 50+ doves per year. Have never seen a banded dove in person. Y'all are lucky!!!

Are these raised dove they band and release or they catch them in the wild somehow?

I think they usually use a mesh cage and some bait to get them in it.

Never killed a banded dove or duck!

That's cool. Never seen a banded dove.

Bottom band nearest to my thumb is a dove band

Never seen a dove band but my buddy shot a pigeon that had 3 bands on it. One said AU.

He tasted just like the others.

We gone call you the band bandit!

Na not me, I have a buddy that has a whole lanyard full. He’s killed a pile of neck collared geese as well. Luckiest sob I’ve ever seen

How old and what species was the bird wearing the top right band? Looks old and worn down

I shot a banded dove back maybe 10 years ago in Autauga county. Pretty neat.

Dad..uncle..and cousin all killed banded birds on the same hunt..3-4 years back.

That was a drake mallard I killed last year. It was banded in 2013 as an adult, in st johns bay Michigan.

I think I would mount a banded dove if I ever kill one....

I was walking out of our office building several years ago and there was dead pigeon in the gutter. I looked down and noticed it had bands on both legs but I kept walking. Had lunch with a guy i duck hunt with and told him about it. He said he wanted those bands so I decided to grab a pair of scissors on my way back down and remove the bands. As I scanned the area and saw no one was around, I knelt down and started removing the legs, I look up and there was an older lady starring at me in horror while I'm holding a pair of scissors and 2 banded pigeon legs. I tossed the pigeon back in the gutter, said good afternoon and went back to my office. I'll never forget the look on that old lady's face when she walked up on some guy cutting up a dead pigeon in the gutter. It was awesome. Only person I know to this day that has pink bands on his lanyard...