Gallery: These Lovely Birds Do More Than Sing—They Sleep Around
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A wood thrush wearing a radio transmitter.
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This tiny white speck in the foliage is what the scientists were looking for in the dark.
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What do you use when there isn't an obvious way to attach your instruments to the plane? Duct tape, of course.
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The research team and Captain Fuzzzo. Clearly some origami was involved in fitting them all into the plane, as well as the duct tape holding the instruments on.
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When you have attached your instrumentation to a plane with duct tape and bicycle inner tubes, there is still the problem of the receiver cords. Three guys in a tiny plane, flying low, with the windows open. It cannot have been comfortable.
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Driving around at night in a pickup covered with antennas and monitoring equipment, looking for birds. What could possibly go wrong in rural Virginia.
