Bird Banding the Dry Tortugas
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2014
We assembled at nine in the morning in a small parking lot outside the naval base in Key West, Florida. For decades researchers have made annual trips out to the Tortugas to catch Sooty Terns, attach tiny silver bands to their legs with unique identification numbers, and then set them free again. That was mostly my fault.
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