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[Cool birb, but see comments. Not accurate.] Dinosaurs Still Live (mander.xyz)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Birds are monitored by putting a ring on their leg. The ring can then be used to identify the bird if it's captured or seen with a telescope/binoculars/camera by someone else, or if their carcass is found. Typically it's just a small metal ring but these days multiple colored rings can also be used, those are put into a public database that anyone can use to identify the bird and see where it has been spotted, when it was ringed, how old it is etc.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Gotcha.

I was familiar with the concept but not the phrasing. Thanks for the edification!