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Tiny backpacks for small songbirds (lemmy.nz)
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Thatś a yellow-rumped warbler wearing a multisensor geolocator backpack

A small black, white and yellow bird perched on a branch with a green background

The tracker must be light enough to not weigh down a bird that weighs only as much as a spoonful of sugar, and it was used as part of this study:

Tiny backpacks reveal the secret, sometimes circuitous migrations of small songbirds

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[-] humble_boatsman@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 weeks ago

You see, this is how you get people to believe birds arent real.

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

wasn't the actual method just chanting it with a sign until people started joining in? IIRC it was started by a guy doing it as an experiment and it went way bigger than he anticipated

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