Hummingbird Banding - The Lasting Legacy of Toolmaker Lee Rogers
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Bird banding is the main method to monitor hummingbird diversity and abundance, range expansion, and longevity. Measuring and banding the smallest birds in the world requires exact and small customized tools. Earlier hummingbird banders tinkered with many iterations of tools and bands until Lee Rogers, a former IBM engineer turned innovative toolmaker in Patagonia, started to design better tools to minimize the impact on hummingbirds.