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Though winter is a tough time for birds, it's perhaps the most rewarding season for us to feed them . You're virtually guaranteed to have a decent number of hungry visitors to your garden, even if all you do is chuck a bit of seed outside. But have you ever pondered where the birds are from?...

Colin is quite right. The data obtained from ringing activities can help to inform our conservation decisions. For example: Ringing studies of cirl buntings in Devon showed that individuals rarely moved more than 2km between breeding territories and winter feeding areas. Subsequent conservation programmes...