Table A-6. Criteria for identifying Bird Banding Laboratory records used in 
the analysis of Central Management Unit mourning dove banding and recovery 
data. 


Banding summary file 
AOU no.: 316. 
State: All 48 conterminous States. 
Year: 1967-75 (1967-74 in CMU). 
Permit: All. 
Month: |] June-31 August. 
Day: All, reformatted. 
Status: 3 (normal wild bird). 
Age: ) (AHY, adult), 2 (HY, immature). 
Sex: 4 (male), 5 (female), 6 (unknown). 
Flyway: Central and parts of Mississippi reformatted to the 
CMU, Atlantic, and Pacific. 
Latitude: All in U.S. 
Longitude: All in U.S. 
Direction: All. 
Schedule or prefix: All. 

Recovery file 
The recovery file contains all elements in the banding summary file through 
column 33, as described above. In addition, the following elements con- 
tained only in the recovery file were used in selecting records. 
Date recovered: In hunting season only, defined as follows: U.S., 1 
Sept.-31 Jan.; Southern Zone (Mexico and Central 
America), 1 Aug.-31 May. All exact dates, plus all 
inexact dates, identifiable to acceptable months 
during recovery years 1967-77. 
00 (found dead), 01 (shot), 56 (obtained in hunting 
season), and 98 (band or band number only in 
hunting season). In the Southern Zone, all "How 
obtained" recoveries were used. 
How obtained: 
Who reported: All. 
Why reported: All. 
Where recovered: For CMU bandings, all; for EMU and WMU bandings, only 
those in CMU and Southern Zone. 
Band type: All. 
Present condition: All. 
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