What do you think the “strange big black bird” that had “two rings on its legs and a phone-like tracking device manufactured in Columbia” was? Whatever it was it was killed by hunters in Nigeria, it had the following inscription, I assume on one or both of the rings: “9287963- Reseng Meseuom.hom @ Sweden,” and it made the internet.
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy and Desmond Shearwater. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
G Spotted Eagle.
Black Stork.
But the information is obviously garbled: “Meseuom” looks like it should have been “Museum”, for example.
I’ll keep my eye out for a followup article and will post it here if I find it.
Let’s hope it isn’t Pirsu:
http://birdmap.5dvision.ee/index.php?lang=en