The Punic Wars, which lasted from 218 to 201 B.C., are when bird banding was first documented. (Top Ten Technologies for Studying Birds, 2022)

A Roman officer received a swallow from a besieged fortress and tied a thread around the bird's leg before releasing it to indicate his reaction.
About 57 million birds have been banded in the United States since 1909.(Top Ten Technologies for Studying Birds, 2022)

Activity: Count how many legbands will be used for 10 birds and create your own leg band

the sixth century, a Greek mathematician created the camera obscura. This technology is even more practical thanks to motion sensors and infrared.(Top Ten Technologies for Studying Birds, 2022)

Ornithologists use still, moving, and video cameras to record rare species, enable precise flock counts, and establish visual evidence of the presence or absence of birds while the camera is in use. (Top Ten Technologies for Studying Birds, 2022)

In the wild, playing recordings can elicit a response from birds. (Playback should always be done properly to prevent permanently harming birds.)

High-end microphones can now record every nuance of bird songs, unlike the 1876 Emile Berliner telephone voice transmitter that was first sold.

When a specimen of Archaeopteryx, the first known bird, was found in the early 1860s, the search for the ancestors of modern birds officially began

(evograms, 2022)
Recent fossil finds from China, South America, and other countries, as well as new viewpoints and analytical techniques applied to ancient museum specimens, allowed scientists to determine that birds are the descendants of small carnivorous dinosaurs of the Late Jurassic.

Activity: Identify in which country are birds originally from .
When was the first bird founded.

The links between birds and climate change are becoming more and more obvious. Rising temperatures are affecting where birds dwell, when they migrate, when they lay their eggs, and even the sizes and shapes of their bodies.(How Does Climate Change Impact Birds?, 2022)

Birds experience a complex network of indirect impacts as a result of the changing habitats in which they inhabit, in addition to the direct effects that living on a warming planet has on their lives and bodies. These consist of Fire and famine Drought and warmer temperatures: and disease.(How Does Climate Change Impact Birds?, 2022)

Identify the climate changes: match the word with the picture.