Stephen,
Your neighbour is not alone in believing that birds with transmitter. Hezbollah
claims to have caught a "spy hawk" in northern Lebanon this week. I know
Mossad has done some devious and even dumb things, but putting a ring with a
return address on the leg of a "spy", I think not.
See
http://www.jerusalemonline.com/news/middle-east/the-arab-world/hezbollah-we-caught-an-israeli-spy-hawk-1986
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
On 19/10/2013, at 13:56, "Stephen Ambrose" <> wrote:
> I've just had a telephone conversation with a neighbour about the use of
> transmitters on birds. For some time now she has had two banded Rainbow
> Lorikeets carrying transmitter packs visiting the balcony of her upper level
> apartment in inner Sydney on a daily basis. I could not tell from her
> description of the packs if they were transmitters that sent signals to a
> hand-held receiver or to satellites. The neighbour contacted me because she
> did not know what these packs were, lives alone and wondered if they were
> miniature cameras put on lorikeets by someone who wanted to spy on her! She
> was initially very upset, wanted to know who she should contact about the
> person spying on her, but was much more relaxed once I had explained to her
> the purposes of animal telemetry and the reasons for its use. I know this
> person quite well and she is not neurotic, just highly uneducated about
> wildlife survey techniques. While this is a humorous story, it does
> demonstrate the importance for individual researchers, particularly those
> who conduct research in urban areas, to publicise and explain their research
> to the general community. Otherwise, it could lead to all sorts of
> misconceptions and perhaps give research a bad reputation.
>
> Stephen Ambrose
> Ryde NSW
>
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