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- primaries are flattened onto the rule.
Birds are weighed in paper tubes of appropriate
size + released by blowing through a
small release trap door.
A banding record is maintained for each
band size. Records kept at the main
building include a journal, a special book
for species observations + a master book
of species records summarizing all records
of all species since operations began here.
In general the operations are well designed
+ lack only directed purpose. No one is
studying anything in particular + the
whole effort is very much of a hobby
scheme.
The island offers excellent opportunities for
studies of 3 species of tern, kittiwake, fulmar,
murre, razorbill, lesser b-b. [black-backed] gull + herring
gull + nobody is doing anything about it.
The trouble is that Oxford alone is
doing any really scientific work on
Ornithology, I don't know yet about Aberdeen.
We spent our 2 days on the island
reroofing one trap, photographing, exploring
+ in banding 9 birds including tree pipit,
rock pipit, willow warbler + scarlet grosbeak.
Arrived home tonight about 9 o'clock.
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