Osprey chick in trouble

[Dinusaur]

Grandriver Conservation Authority has done a marvellous job in setting up an Osprey Cam (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXsQcEuK8zc#t=14391). I have been following two chicks in the nest for few weeks. Sometime towards the end of June both chicks were banded. I remember having spirited discussion about bird banding in this forum and I wondered at that time what would happen if the band got stuck somewhere and the bird couldn't free himself. Well, that's exactly what happened to one of the chicks in Grandriver nest. Yesterday around 4 PM the chick's band got stuck in the nest and he couldn't free himself for feeding. This morning he was seen almost motionless at the same spot with wings spread - exhausted and de-hydrated. The folks at Grandriver Conservation area picked him up from the nest today around 12:40 PM and returned him around 4:15 PM after he was treated by a vet. He seemed to be doing fine now, though he is not completely out of the woods. If there were no camera pointing to the nest nobody would've known about it and the chick would've perished - we would all be thinking that's how the nature works. Not quite. The Grandriver website has a non-intervention policy published - kind of an oxy-moron given that the natural process was intervened and the birds were banded. I hope the story for this chick ends well. Otherwise it will just be another banding casualty that nobody keeps track of.

[BoboBird]

I too have vented about this sort of activity. They (the banders) claim they have papers, but none have ever been produced. It appears to me that our birds are simply targets for something but certainly not study and research. Banded RWBB?? Banded Geese??

MNR should really look at the abuse, mortality rate, molestation of the bird etc., dead juvi rth at Dv,  If there is a bona-fide study in place fine but from 3 years of observation is that anything that flies is fine. Odd that it is always birds of least concern that seem to be targets.

"We have papers"!

[mr.sharp-photo]

there was a question about banding at the Spit.
after their saw-whet banding spree, there was only 1 sporadically-seen saw-whet seen for the rest of the spring. almost as if the rest were pissed off and moved elsewhere