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PL8S 4 PETS ID Tags

4 The Love Of Animals

These unique ID tags feature your pet’s name on the front on your state license plate. On the back, your pet’s photo and information, in the style like a drivers license. We loved that there were additional choices for the information other than just name and number. Another great thing about the tags?

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What the rings reveal

10,000 Birds

The information I received didn’t indicate the age of the bird. That’s why the current trend to radio-tag birds reveals so much more than ringing, though it is of course vastly more expensive. Rings are not the only way of marking birds, and with a number of species wing tags are more often used.

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More Disturbing Information on BP Emerges

Critter News

Tags: oil drilling British Petroleum 2010 oil spill pollution. Here's a good article in the Seattle Times about BP corporate misbehavior. I had no idea. You really have to hand it to their PR people.

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What is the Terra Project?

10,000 Birds

Trail cams and the like can, to a certain extent, record what you miss, but they focus on visual information. Detect radio-tagged birds that fly within several km. Have you ever wondered what birds were flying overhead while you slept or what critters crept through your yard unnoticed?

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The wonders of migration

10,000 Birds

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. Once again these tiny 5 gram satellite tags were deployed and since 2011 they have tracked the incredible journeys of several Cuckoos. Eastern Curlew.

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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

” But also: “Delisted,” “Growing Up,” “Second Chances,” “No Tags.” By focusing on three case studies from a personal, memoir-oriented point of view, Osborn engages our imagination while informing our brain. She is particularly talented at painting how birds fly and interact.

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Urban birds, urban birding… is there a future?

10,000 Birds

White-tailed Eagles normally take flight silently, yet, while checking some Common Starlings and hoping for Rosy Starlings , I heard a few noisy wing-beats, enough to turn and see a young eagle flying with a wing tag. Hidden from my view, it stood on a nearby tree and if it weren’t for those clumsy beats, I wouldn’t have noticed it.

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