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I had a completely different post planned and tossed it out the window this morning over my coffee as I watched the birds out my window.  I have an especially interesting bird in my hipster Minneapolis neighborhood, a Cooper’s Hawk.  A Cooper’s hawk in and of itself may not be the most exciting bird on [...]

Bird banding (or ringing if you’re in the Old World) is considered one of the most effective ways of monitoring avian population, migration, and species diversity. Some authorities argue that capture, tagging, and subsequent recapture is the field biologist’s most important tool for enumerating and quantifying the status of wild populations. But is there a [...]