I asked the local birding experts (which includes professionals). Painting birds is not used for (temporary) marking. A fresh painted pole or something similar must be the source.
Toine On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 at 21:40, John <[email protected]> wrote: > > If researchers needed a temporary way of marking adult birds, something like a > paint ball might work. It would be a lot less stressful for the bird than > repeated captures to read the information on the leg band. > > Thinking about it though, capturing, marking with a non-toxic paint & > releasing > might be what they're doing. > > On 12/5/2020 13:50:18, Toine wrote: > > That would require capture and manual handling of the birds. A > > permanent marking is ringing. Birds of prey are ringed in the nest if > > I remember correctly. > > A paint ball would be very strange, why would a sane person shoot > > paint balls at a kestrel? > > Kestrels like to sit on top of poles etc. > > > > On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 at 19:28, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>> On Dec 5, 2020, at 6:57 AM, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>> Great shot! > >>> > >>> Do you have any idea how it got "painted”? > >> > >> My google fu says that there is some temporary marking of wildlife with > >> paint. All the references I found were long technical pdfs. but it is > >> possible that it was done for research purposes. > >> -- > >> Larry Colen > >> [email protected] > >> > > > > > -- > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
