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Tiny backpacks for small songbirds
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livligkinkajou slrpnk.net livligkinkajou@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2026-01-27
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ThatÅ› a yellow-rumped warbler wearing a multisensor geolocator backpack

A small black, white and yellow bird perched on a branch with a green background

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

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humble_boatsman sh.itjust.works humble_boatsman@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-01-15
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You see, this is how you get people to believe birds arent real.

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Grass sh.itjust.works Grass@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-09-30
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You see, this is how you get people to believe birds arent real.

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

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dialectalraveling lemmy.world dialectalraveling@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-06-23
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Small world. I've built and deployed those before. It's fun to see these writeups in the wild.

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pageflight piefed.social pageflight@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-09-04
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Very cool! And while not detailed at the circuit level, nice that the article does talk a bit about the sensors.

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