Thatś a yellow-rumped warbler wearing a multisensor geolocator backpack
The tracker must be light enough to not weigh down a bird that weighs only as much as a spoonful of sugar, and it was used as part of this study:
Tiny backpacks reveal the secret, sometimes circuitous migrations of small songbirds
4 Comments
humble_boatsman@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 6d
You see, this is how you get people to believe birds arent real.
Grass@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 6d
wasn't the actual method just chanting it with a sign until people started joining in? IIRC it was started by a guy doing it as an experiment and it went way bigger than he anticipated
dialectalraveling@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 6d
Small world. I've built and deployed those before. It's fun to see these writeups in the wild.
pageflight@piefed.social · 2 pts · 6d
Very cool! And while not detailed at the circuit level, nice that the article does talk a bit about the sensors.