That would require capture and manual handling of the birds. A permanent marking is ringing. Birds of prey are ringed in the nest if I remember correctly. A paint ball would be very strange, why would a sane person shoot paint balls at a kestrel? Kestrels like to sit on top of poles etc.
On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 at 19:28, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > > > > On Dec 5, 2020, at 6:57 AM, Daniel J. Matyola <danmaty...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Great shot! > > > > Do you have any idea how it got "painted”? > > My google fu says that there is some temporary marking of wildlife with > paint. All the references I found were long technical pdfs. but it is > possible that it was done for research purposes. > > > -- > Larry Colen > l...@red4est.com > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
