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Definition of bird ringing in English: bird ringingnoun mass nounBritish The practice of catching birds, marking them with an identifying band around the leg, and then releasing them. North American term bird banding Example sentencesExamples - Bird ringing for scientific purposes started in Denmark in 1889, when H.D. Mortensen released Starlings that were fitted with metal rings engraved with successive numbers and a return address.
- This year, the ‘Delhibird’, group and the Bombay Natural History Society organised a three-day bird ringing camp at Basai, a swampy bird-rich habitat just outside Gurgaon (Haryana).
- All birds were caught with mistnets at night on intertidal flats in the Wadden Sea (under Dutch bird ringing center license numbers 851 and 351 for knots and turnstones, respectively).
- Most activities start from 10 am and include nature trails, bird ringing, hurdle making (fashionable this), charcoal, wood turning and pole lathing.
- In the late 1950s when youthful Chris Mead was bird ringing at Barn Elms Reservoir, I was an even younger budding ringer at Beddington Sewage Farm, and we often caught each other's birds.
Derivatives noun British A qualified bird ringer and trainer, Geoff has considerable experience of European species identification. Example sentencesExamples - Up until last year, the only way to get involved in bird migration studies was to go to the coast or to train as a bird ringer.
- The museum encourages ornithologists and bird ringers to donate samples to our collections.
- Once you have qualified as a bird ringer, you may take interested people with you on your ringing trips.
- The group consists of several bird ringers who are licensed by the British Trust for Ornithology.
- It is usually only bird ringers who carry-out survey work in reedbeds who are lucky enough to see them.
Definition of bird ringing in US English: bird ringingnoun British The practice of catching birds, marking them with an identifying band around the leg, and then releasing them; bird banding. Example sentencesExamples - Most activities start from 10 am and include nature trails, bird ringing, hurdle making (fashionable this), charcoal, wood turning and pole lathing.
- This year, the ‘Delhibird’, group and the Bombay Natural History Society organised a three-day bird ringing camp at Basai, a swampy bird-rich habitat just outside Gurgaon (Haryana).
- In the late 1950s when youthful Chris Mead was bird ringing at Barn Elms Reservoir, I was an even younger budding ringer at Beddington Sewage Farm, and we often caught each other's birds.
- All birds were caught with mistnets at night on intertidal flats in the Wadden Sea (under Dutch bird ringing center license numbers 851 and 351 for knots and turnstones, respectively).
- Bird ringing for scientific purposes started in Denmark in 1889, when H.D. Mortensen released Starlings that were fitted with metal rings engraved with successive numbers and a return address.
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