Tracing Wild Birds
Thirty per cent, of the migrating birds
which are trapped, ringed and released at the Heligoland bird-watching station are reported weeks or months afterwards from places as far as Africa or India. They are caught on the island in a big trap of wire-netting gradually narrowing to a cage and the ring fastened to one leg of each bird bears the word “Heligoland” and an indexed number.
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Southland Times, Issue 23840, 10 June 1939, Page 18
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70Tracing Wild Birds Southland Times, Issue 23840, 10 June 1939, Page 18
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