| Rachel measured the hummingbird's tail. She sent the measurements, along with the date and place the hummer was banded, to the Bird Banding Lab, where all banding records are kept. “You always hope that someone else will recapture a bird you banded,” says Rachel. Of 100,000 Rubythroats that have been banded, only 100 have ever been recaptured by another bander! But guess what . . .
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