gher-bear:rangerkimmy:fat-birds:the-psychotic-biotic:APPARENTLY THIS IS HOW ZOOLOGISTS WEIGH TINY BI
gher-bear:rangerkimmy:fat-birds:the-psychotic-biotic:APPARENTLY THIS IS HOW ZOOLOGISTS WEIGH TINY BIRDSthis really needed to be on this blog#[muffled ‘THIS IS HORRIBLY UNDIGNIFIED I DEMAND A LAWYER’]I love banding birds! I prefer the baggie method, though. Several people fetch the captured birds from the net (where it’s carefully watched and immediately attended to) and put them in soft cloth baggies that they gently hang from a convenient nearby tree like the world’s weirdest Christmas ornaments. Then the people doing the recording fetch a baggie, weigh it, then carefully open it and blindly stick their hands in to retrieve the bird.It’s exactly what it sounds like. You didn’t bag this bird. What’s inside? Who knows? You just have the weight to go on. Is it a robin who will just let you do your thing and you both move on with your day? Is it a tiny little wren?As it clamps down on your finger and twists, you know. You grin and proudly announce “I’ve got a cardinal! And it got me back!”From the direction of the net you hear a cheerful reply: “That $&#$ was mine! It got me, too!”Bird banding is a blast, and I can’t wait for my banding station to start back up for the season! -- source link