Oystercatchers dyed yellow – Help track their movements.

More than 100 Oystercatchers from the Burry Inlet have been dyed yellow as part of a tracking project run by the Countryside Council for Wales and the British Trust for Ornithology.

A team of ornithologists spent a day at Whiteford Burrows National Nature Reserve, in the Gower, catching, ringing, and marking the birds, by dyeing their white breasts yellow.

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Updated: February 17, 2012 — 7:38 pm

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