The mystery bird that spent a week-ish making a mess at the Radisson has been identified. It was a female (good eyes Pam!), hatched this year from a wild-nest at the Community First National Bank in Fargo, North Dakota. Her band number is black over green, sideways V over sideways E (*V/*E). And her name is Sandy.
For those of you who think the location is familiar, it is. A few years ago, one of our birds was the resident female there, actually the female was a daughter of Winnie from Winnipeg who nested in Omaha, Nebraska for a number of years. Winnie is a kid of T-Rex and a half-sister of Trey. Now Sandy is not related to Winnie or any of the Manitoba birds so far as I can find (at least not so far
) but here is her immediate family tree (sorry, haven't figured out how to more easily post the family tree hierarchy information.
Sandy (two sibs: female=Crest and male=Harrison)
-- Dakota Ace (father = 1997 captive-bred bird hack released in 1997 in Sioux Falls, SD) resident male in Fargo since 2001 (Winnie's kid was his first mate)
----- parents are captive breeding pair in South Dakota
-- Miracle (mother = 2004 wild-hatched chick from the Sherco Power Plant in MN - webcam on Forum) resident female since 2008
----- unidentified male (material grandfather)
----- Seminoe (maternal grandmother = 1999 wild-hatch from Prairie Island Plant in Goodhue county, MN) resident female at Sherco Plant since 2002
-------- Maverick (maternal great-grandfather = 1988 wild-hatch from Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN) resident male from 1990-1994
----------- parents are captive-breeding pair in Minnesota
-------- Comet (maternal great-grandmother = 1988 wild-hatch from Rouchleau Pit Virginia, St. Louis county, MN) resident female from 1990-1998
----------- parents are captive breeding pair in South Dakota
