This is typically done by sampling their feces or what is inside the stomachs of dead birds, but this new method will help ...

The birds are short and stout with tuxedo-styled feathers, and nest in large colonies on islands or coastal cliffs, keeping close to the ocean where they hunt fish, squid, octopus and crustaceans.

It was an average day for Israeli fighter pilot Yair Harlev, monitoring the skies near the Dead Sea in 1983, when he noticed something out of the corner of his eye ... collision with a bird in recent ...