Banding Baby Dinosaurs
BABY DINOSAURS IN THE CITY!... and we've been studying them for years! We talked with Field Museum ornithologist Josh Engel about how scientists gather information and take risks while monitoring...
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:intro jingle: Emily: We're here in the egg collection with Josh Engel who's a research assistant in birds. And Josh, what is your involvement with the Peregrine program? Josh: I go along on the banding efforts to help gather the young from the nests. And, then when they're inside I help with the banding. And, I do the blood draws so we have blood samples from all of the young. Emily: This is something that you do pretty regularly at this time of the year. And, what is involved with the process? I mean aside from calling up Tom in the night and getting us to grab our camera and go. Josh: Yeah, so there's about a 3-week period. Starting usually the end of May going into June. Where all of the young Peregrine falcons in all of t...
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:intro jingle: Emily: We're here in the egg collection with Josh Engel who's a research assistant in birds. And Josh, what is your involvement with the Peregrine program? Josh: I go along on the banding efforts to help gather the young from the nests. And, then when they're inside I help with the banding. And, I do the blood draws so we have blood samples from all of the young. Emily: This is something that you do pretty regularly at this time of the year. And, what is involved with the process? I mean aside from calling up Tom in the night and getting us to grab our camera and go. Josh: Yeah, so there's about a 3-week period. Starting usually the end of May going into June. Where all of the young Peregrine falcons in all of t...
