Student Participating in Nighttime Bird Banding in Kentucky, c. 1980s

Young person, on the left, wearing a coat or jacket, gloves, hooded sweater, white face mask, and hard hat. He is carefully removing a small bird (a Cowbird) from the branches of a (cedar) tree, on the left.
Photo By/Credit

Jon F. Weisterberg

Date Shot/Created
Circa early- to mid-1980s.
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
Picking a night-roosting Cowbird from a Cedar tree in Kentucky, in preparation for banding the bird. The mask is to protect the student from inhaling Histoplasma, a species of Fungus (Histoplasmosis is a fungal infection).
Subject tags
Bird banding
Equipment
History
Work of the Service