Tiny backpacks for small songbirds

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A yellow-rumped warbler wears a multisensor geolocator backpack

Thatś a yellow-rumped warbler wearing a multisensor geolocator backpack

A small black, white and yellow bird perched on a branch with a green background

The tracker must be light enough to not weigh down a bird that weighs only as much as a spoonful of sugar, and it was used as part of this study:

Tiny backpacks reveal the secret, sometimes circuitous migrations of small songbirds

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