A bird ringer or bander holding a female Bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula, caught for scientific research purposes before releasing

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A bird ringer or bander holding a female Bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula, caught for scientific research purposes before releasing back into the wild. In Britain birds can only be caught by law for research purposes, and then only under special licence issued by the British Trust for Ornithology

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Size: 4960px × 3307px
Location: Suffolk, England
Photo credit: © Graham Uney / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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