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Banding birds can give you a lot of information about some species
Not so much about others. Here because Gray Jays are resident birds
we can band them with our USGS metal band, but we also are individually marking these birds
and Gray Jays are easy to observe so we can tell individuals
they're also long-lived birds
so we're gonna be able to follow these birds for 15 years
as individuals, and so we're gonna know that yellow
over white, red, silver
so YORS is a female that has had X number of fledglings over her lifespan
and that, you know, potentially her breeding attempts are decreasing or increasing
We'll know her survival when she disappears from the landscape presumably
she's gonna die because this is where she lives, so we're gonna be able to
Find out a lot of information about our individual birds, which is really unique for a study
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