An example of a bird band-tag that Baldwin would attach to a bird, usually a juvenile, before it migrated southwards for mating. These tags would be collected as soon as possible upon specimen’s, often a House Wren, return for the purpose of calculating migratory and mating patterns. Tools such as these helped with Baldwin’s discovery that House Wren’s among others, did not mate for life. Closest to scale that I could obtain. | Date: ca. 1931 | Source: S. Prentiss Baldwin. Scientific Publications of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Vol. I, No. 5: Bird Banding by Systematic Trapping. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Natural History, 1931. Smithsonian Libraries. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/122679#page/16/mode/1up.Download Original File
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S. Prentiss Baldwin. Scientific Publications of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Vol. I, No. 5: Bird Banding by Systematic Trapping. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Natural History, 1931. Smithsonian Libraries. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/122679#page/16/mode/1up.
