What the rings reveal
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2024
I’d love to have known where and when the Great Spotted Woodpecker in my photograph below was ringed, but though the ring is clearly visible, the number stamped on it isn’t. That’s why the current trend to radio-tag birds reveals so much more than ringing, though it is of course vastly more expensive.
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