Bird collaborations at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center

This past winter a bird was found on Red Reef Beach with a strange numbered metal bracelet around its ankle, the bird was brought to gumbo limbo where we were able to identify it. It was a Royal Tern that had been marked with a USGS bird-band. This was very exciting because only about 2% of banded Royal Terns are ever recovered away from the site where they were banded.