Tasks / Pigeon Tagging
Tag pigeons and track their movement throughout the city. If you don't want to touch pigeons you may simply choose one or two and follow them, although this will result in a severe point penalty.
1 to 3 players
30 points
Level 2
In the zone of: Biome
0 completed :: 6 in progress
Interested in collaborating on this: (no one yet!)
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This strikes me as challenging for level 2
Gum + streamer + pigeon = your own message in the sky!
You can do this by sitting with food very quietly and eventually they will come land on you. In England where I live it is pretty easy to catch them like this. One actually landed on my shoulder once and stole a chip out of my mouth when I laughed at it. Cheeky bastard. I used to single out the ones with string and stuff stuck round their feet, 'cos it makes them deformed and lumpy. I used to disentangle them and give them a crumb. Maybe you could combine this task with such good deeds?
There is a formula for determining population size in a mark and recapture method.
First you catch and mark members of a population and then you release them. You return at an incremental period.
Then, you recapture from the population. I don't know how it works but, the amount you captured the first time multiplyed the number you captured the second time divided by the number of subjects having markings captured the second time give an accurate representation of the population size. It is called the "mark and recapture method"