On day 7, 24 chicks from each group were randomly selected, weighed, leg banded and transferred to metabolic cages (0.5 m × 0.5 m × 0.5 m) with four birds per cage allocated into six replications.
A brief glimpse of a reddish bill and legs, banded black-and-white flanks, and a short, upturned tail is often all that is afforded observers.
The Browns leg-banded 2000 nest-bound baby swallows.
The team randomly gave males either a red or green leg band, then allowed each of six females to mate with a green-banded male.
All but the band-tail and some of the Andean gulls have leg bands.
Featherwork, armbands and leg bands, necklaces, and body painting were common in many areas.
Long strips of fabric were woven for making armbands and leg bands and other decorations.
There is, for example, a special machine just for slipping on numbered rubber leg bands.
When they trace the owners through the leg bands, "we get the same answer every time," Mr. Arnhem said.
We wrap them each in a high-visibility leg band and a lot of vet wrap so that they hopefully don't fall off.
