Last week I was down on Seabrook with Audubon South Carolina looking at shorebirds, and a Piping Plover was right in front of us on the beach, with an orange flag easily visible. Researchers use these flags to identify the location of banding; the orange flag tells us that we should be talking to the Great Lakes team. (See chart below) When you report a banded bird, you want to keep careful notes on what you saw. In only a few hours, we had the ID and history of YOGi, named for his yellow-orange-green bands.