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Banding birds at one of the oldest labs in North America

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Published October 12, 2021 at 12:11 PM CDT

It’s fall and that means birds are winging their way south for the winter.

On their journey, some of them will be netted by scientists at the Manomet Observatory in Plymouth, Massachusetts — one of the oldest banding labs in North America.

WBUR’s Barbara Moran reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.