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     encounter herons from other regions when they migrate 
     
     and, unless they are banded, it is virtually impossible 
     
     to determine their origin. Because Great Blue Herons 
     
     occasLOIIally winter on P.E.I. and elsewhere in the 
     
     Maritimes, it surprised me when 3 of our birds were 
     
     recovered in the West Indies: 1 from Haiti, 1 from the 
     
     Dominican Republic, and I from the Bahamas (see Fig.1). 
     
     Single P.E.I. individuals have also been recovered in 
     
     Florida, Virginia, and Delaware. In addition, h were 
     
     'recovered in New Brunswick and l on P.E.I. Of these ll 
     
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     found sick and later died, while the remaining 2 were 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     apparently snared (in the West Indies) and possibly 
     
     eaten! Seven of these herons were less than 1 year old when recovered, thus support— 
     
     ing the fact that birds suffer their greatest martality during their first year while 
     
     they are still relatively inexperienced. 
     
     Another P.E.I. banding program involved cormorants. Between l9Th and l978 I 
     
     banded 63h Great Cormorants at a colony near Souris and MS Double—crested Cormorants 
     
     .at a colony near French River. To date 1 Double—crested and 19 Great Cormorants have 
     
     been recovered. Great Cormorants, in North America, creed only in the Gul£ of St. 
     
    
   
   
    
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