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What the rings reveal

10,000 Birds

They are of the race islandica , a sub species of the nominate race, limosa. That’s why the current trend to radio-tag birds reveals so much more than ringing, though it is of course vastly more expensive. The first sighting of it after being rung was close to the town of Utena in north-east Lithuania on 11 July 2015.

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