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Ronald Larkin and Radar Equipment

Caption: Ronald Larkin and his colleagues used a Korean War-era low-power-density tracking radar to detect and record the discrete flight details of two birds at a time. "Wherever the bird flies, the radar points at it," he said.

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer, U. of I. News Bureau.

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