Volunteers banded tiny saw-whet owls behind a New Hampshire school
At the Black Mountain Banding Station behind Kearsarge High School, N.H. Audubon and Forest Society volunteers have banded nearly three dozen Northern saw-whet owls this fall for Project OwlNet.
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Volunteers at the Black Mountain Banding Station, behind Kearsarge High School in New London, have banded nearly three dozen Northern saw-whet owls this fall, the Concord Monitor reported. N.H. Audubon and the Forest Society run the work.
Each band joins the continent-wide Project OwlNet network, so a later encounter can show where a bird has been. Nearly three dozen is this fall's count at that station, not a population estimate for the species.
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Behind Kearsarge High School in New London, New Hampshire, volunteers catch very small owls called Northern saw-whet owls. They put a tiny numbered band on each bird's leg and let it go. This fall, N.H. Audubon and Forest Society volunteers at the Black Mountain Banding Station have banded nearly three dozen. The bands help a continent-wide project called Project OwlNet learn where the owls travel. A band is a loose bracelet for science, not a pet collar, and the owls fly off again.
- Why would scientists put a band on a wild owl?
- What could a tiny band tell people if the same owl is found again?
- Why set up a science station behind a high school?
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