A sequence documenting chook banding on the Lengthy Level Fowl Observatory by UK-born, Toronto-based photographer Finn O’Hara. Fowl banding is a method for learning and figuring out birds. To maintain observe of particular person birds, scientists use mist nets to seize the birds, and as soon as collected, connect aluminum bands (engraved with a singular set of numbers) onto the birds’ legs. For this sequence, O’Hara labored with Birds Canada. Lengthy Level Fowl Observatory is famend for migrating chook concentrations, it stays Canada’s best chook banding station, having banded 1,072,981 birds throughout 296 species since 1960.
“I’m drawn to chook banders not only for their chook care but in addition for the human connection they set up with every chook, pushed by curiosity and compassion.”
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