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Article: A comparison of techniques for marking passerine nestlings.
- Article from:
- Wilson Bulletin
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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Adult birds are marked for individual identification by various techniques, including attachment of patagial tags (Brua 1998), nasal saddles (Koob 1981), plastic neckbands (Helm 1955), and aluminum or colored leg bands (Marion and Shamis 1977). However, such techniques are often not suitable for marking young birds because of their rapid change in body size as they grow. Nonetheless, it is often necessary to identify individual nestlings when studying nestling growth rates (Degen et al. 1992), begging behavior (Bachman and Chappell 1998, Saino et al. 2001), survival rates (Howe 1976), or the effects of human disturbance (Davis and Parsons 1991, Fernandez 1993).
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