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Red Knots Forage for Horseshoe Crab Eggs at Delaware Bay
Red knots forage for horseshoe crab eggs and other invertebrates on the beaches of Delaware Bay. The bird on the left has a white leg flag marked with an "EX." It was initially capture in Canada in the fall of 2008....
Red Knots Forage for Horseshoe Crab Eggs at Delaware Bay
Red knots forage for horseshoe crab eggs and other invertebrates on the beaches of Delaware Bay. The bird in the center has an orange leg flag indicating it was captured and flagged in the past in Argentina....
Bird-banding Kit
The kit contains over 600 pieces and was used at the Bird Banding Laboratory at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Maryland. Object ID: USGS-000219...
Students recording bird band recovery records
Students Anaga Nmagu and Danielle Travers, hired with ARRA funds, are converting more than one million hand-written bird band recovery records into digital format at the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. Once digitized, these invaluable recovery records will be linked to the Bird Banding Labor... |