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Published online 30 June 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050627-12
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Bird travels tracked by fluorescent droppings
Conservationists show use of landscape 'corridors' by bluebirds.
A forest in South Carolina has been peppered with fluorescent bird droppings, all in the name of conservation. The unusual technique was used to track the movement of birds between patches of their preferred habitat after it has been broken up, in this case by stretches of pine trees.
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