The original Twitter? Tiny electronic tags monitor birds' social networks
Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 14:30
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org)—If two birds meet deep in the forest, does anybody hear? Until now, nobody did, unless an intrepid biologist was hiding underneath a bush and watching their behavior, or the birds happened to meet near a research monitoring station. But an electronic tag designed at the University of Washington can for the first time see when birds meet in the wild.