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What the rings reveal

10,000 Birds

The first sighting of it after being rung was close to the town of Utena in north-east Lithuania on 11 July 2015. It was only when I first pointed my camera at it that I spotted the ring on its leg, while it wasn’t until I downloaded the photograph that I noticed that the unfortunate bird was badly entangled with nylon fishing line.

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