North American Bird Banding Program Dataset 1960-2024 retrieved 2024-07-11

Note: this version has been superseded by
Nakash, E., Malorodova, M., Howes, L., and Celis-Murillo, A., 2025, North American Bird Banding Program Dataset 1960-2025 retrieved 2025-07-11: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P1KPZGAR.

The North American Bird Banding Program is administered by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Bird Banding Laboratory (BBL), Eastern Ecological Science Center at the Patuxent Research Refuge (EESC) and in Canada by the Bird Banding Office (BBO), Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC). This long-term dataset (1960-2024) consists of over 84 million bird banding, encounter and recapture records of over 1,000 bird species covered under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA).