Mystery of Orkney bird tag tracked to London is solved

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Researchers were baffled when the tag used for tracking oystercatchers was traced to London.

"I found it near a fence post on Sanday when we spent a morning there looking round the dunes and walking across the beach," he said.

"I picked it up and put it in my pocket, then in my little bag with the shells I'd picked up from the beach."Mr German was not aware the tag continued to transmit its location to researchers at the University of ExeterCollege of Life and Environmental Sciences It was then tracked to Edinburgh and Heathrow airports, before coming to rest again in a residential street in Ealing.

"After a Five Live interview, a lady got in touch with us very kindly offering to help out, because she was in the area," she said.

 

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