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Banding a red-throated loon

By Alaska Science Center
Student attaching a coded metal band to the leg of red-throated loon with pliers. Student wearing gloves and mosquito net.
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Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program (ANSEP) student Austin Bergerson attaching a coded metal band to the leg of red-throated loon (Gavia stellata).

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Public Domain.

photo taken by Brian Uher-Koch, U.S. Geological Survey