10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2014
Erika is a first year graduate student studying Ecosystem Science and Conservation at Duke. When I say “cut,” I mean paper-cut sized wounds here. As a group we tagged and weighed more than 500 terns, terns that can be recaptured in the future to teach us humans more about the dynamics of the colony.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2013
If we were just birders, or photographers, this would be dreadful behavior, but we were here to watch people engaged in Science. And Science requires Sacrifice. Any bird that was wounded — and a bander could often prevent that fate by firing the net quickly enough — was nursed back to health. Do I sound facetious?
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