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Although video-recording equipment is now familiar in the majority of homes and security cameras and monitors adorn many shops and garages, it is surprising how little the technology has been applied to work on wild birds. The first reported use of video equipment in studies of avian ecology was by Haftorn (1972). He used closed-circuit video cameras to study the breeding behaviour of a number of bird species in both nest boxes and open nests. Considering the novelty of the equipment at the time, this was a remarkable and far-sighted innovation. Since then, there have been rather few reported uses of video techniques per se, although there are probably many instances where such equipment has been used but not reported.
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Smith, K.W. (1994). Wild birds. In: Wratten, S.D. (eds) Video Techniques in Animal Ecology and Behaviour. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0699-3_6
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