Bird Banding the Dry Tortugas
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2014
That seems like an abnormally high risk for a seabird that makes its living picking up small fish from the water’s surface, but Sooty Terns are some of the most abundant seabirds in the world and spend most of their lives on the open ocean between South America and Africa, so it seems to be working for them. Oh, the lessons of bird banding.
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