Yes, there I am. My friend is a lucky Laysan Albatross selected to recieve a data logging device. You can see it on it's right leg. The data logger will collect information such as daylight, air temperature, whether it is in the water or not, and water temperature. It's pretty strange to be able to just walk up to birds and pick them up, they definently don't like it but all we have to do is grab the bill and scoop them up. Other birds around them take notice but no one panics or gets freaked out, they all just continue incubating. This bird will have the data logger on for about a year to 18 months, the only problem is that you have to find the bird again next year in order to take the logger off and download the data. To make finding them easier we paint a stripe on their forehead with nail polish, we like to call it a racing stripe.
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