Researchers hope to learn about movement of small birds using solar-powered devices tracked by satellite
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A joint plan to save an endangered bird species from extinction is benefitting from an experimental tool – tiny solar-powered backpacks.
Plains wanderers are small, fawn-coloured, ground-dwelling birds with speckled throats that live in the semi-arid grasslands of north-western Victoria and the New South Wales Riverina.
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