After a successful first attempt for the season at counting and catching skylarks last week--we decided to open the account at another of our farms last night.
After a short session our relative novice operators were very happy at having counted around 30 skylarks and monitored which fields they were in for the farmer. They were even more satisfied at having caught and ringed 9 birds. At this time of year it is possible to age some birds as juveniles and some as adults. However, pretty soon all age groups of skylarks will finish a complete moult of all of their feathers-at which point we can't age them--that will be the situation in a couple of weeks time.
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