Hi-tech bird tracker breakthrough (BBC)

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New technology which can monitor how animals respond to change in their environment has been developed on an island off the Pembrokeshire Coast.

A system of wireless sensors and GPS tracking is giving researchers a better understanding of the behaviour of manx shearwaters on Skomer Nature Reserve.

Scientists at Microsoft Research say it can be adapted to study animals and ecosystems around the world.
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Microsoft has been working with the University of Oxford and Freie Universitat, Berlin, on the project.
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Data was gathered electronically and beamed back to the mainland, where new software enabled researchers to view it at the click of a computer mouse.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/7256546.stm

First they came for the Manx shearwaters and I did not speak out ... because I was not a Manx shearwater.

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1. Give Cheney one, it might save lives.