Sentence examples for leg ring from inspiring English sources

In particular, I loved how she is always a mine of (often unexpected) information: "I'll wire the International Federation of American Homing Pigeon Fanciers and give them the number stamped on the bird's leg ring.

The bird was identified by a wing tag and leg ring put in place when it was released.

This chapter present the calculation of the leg ring to withstand the hydrostatic load and vertex induced vibration will be illustrated through an example.

All individuals were fitted with a British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) metal leg ring and a plastic leg ring containing a uniquely coded PIT tag (IB Technology, Aylesbury, U.K .. We estimate that the proportion of the population fitted with PIT tags exceeded 90% at the time of the study (Aplin, Farine, et al., 2013), and we do not expect that untagged birds had much impact on our results.

Begun in 2000, it has involved fitting hundreds of vultures with identification leg rings and wing tags in an attempt to trace their movements.

One of them, I noticed as it skimmed my head, had a bright orange bill with a black tip: an exhilarating moment.With nets and bags of leg rings, we spread out over the rocks.

Nearly all of the 400 or so Laysan albatrosses that spend the nesting season here have been fitted with leg rings and have had their DNA taken, and many have been given GPS tracking devices, said Sheila Conant, a professor of zoology at the University of Hawaii.

All have been wing-tagged with a colour and number and given leg rings.

At hatching, chicks were identified according to the group they came from, stable (S) or unstable (UNS), and individualised using coloured leg rings.

All caught birds were provided with a numbered metal ring on one of the tibia and plastic colored leg rings on the tarsi which made birds individually recognisable in the field.

Eight additional fledglings and one adult cinereous vulture from the same colony (as identified by leg rings previously applied) which had not been sampled for blood in their nests, were treated in rehabilitation centres in 2002 and 2005.