Battery Birds Research Tagged 
10,000 Birds
MARCH 30, 2014
There are a variety of websites to the north of Broome where people can upload their photographs of individually marked birds as they make a stopover on their journey. There is a coordinator that makes contact with the banders in the overseas countries and then the information on the individual bird is posted online. Eastern Curlew.
Animal Person
APRIL 6, 2010
Researchers conducted experiments in a lab, then released the animals into the wild, making sure to note that "This was a much harder part of the study, and involved lugging around of batteries," and found similar results. Angier can't resist writing: "A bird in the lab worked like a bird in the bush."
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