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First geolocator of the season retrieved | 16 June 2015 15:34 |
| Today we retrieved the first geolocator which has travelled from the arctic to the antarctic on a tern leg. Margje de Jong made this pictures with her brand new camera. |
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| we catch the tern with a simple cage, a stick and a rope |
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| the rope is 30 meter long |
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| de tern is checking ther nest, while hovering |
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| caught |
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| Suzanne retrieves the tern |
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| the old geolocator is attached to a blue ring |
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| the metal ring is read with the tern on its back |
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| than we measure the size and mass of the bird |
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| total tarsus |
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| headbill |
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| bill length |
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| bill height |
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| wing (but with the end of the ruler better on the front of the wing) |
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| tailfork right |
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| tailfork left |
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| the new geolocator is attached on an engraved colour ring |
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| difficult to get around the leg |
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| readable with a telsescope as black LF |
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| a bit of fast glue |
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| in the bag on the scale fr body mass |
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| one last portrait |
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| and there she goes.... |
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