Dr. Stan Chace of Alturas, Calif., seemingly defied all odds back in the fall of 1962. Home from school on vacation in October, Chace bagged a banded
Canada goose. In December, he shot another banded Canada. When he sat down and compared the bands, Chace found them to be consecutively numbered - the first 518-31661 and the second 518-31662. The birds had been banded in 1959 at Goose Lake.
Photo by Bill Buckley.
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