OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson <orionwo...@charter.net> wrote:
> > it would be interesting to track the position of one bird within the > flock. > > Yes, it would! I suspect technology is advanced and miniaturized enough > that > we could easily fit locator chips on several starlings. Start collecting > data. > Ah. I think a high-res telescopic camera video of the flock and a computer to follow the individual birds might work better. You can examine the paths many different birds in one take. It would hard for a person to keep track of which is which. It would be tedious following an individual bird from frame to frame. Perhaps software could do it better than a person. - Jed
