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Web 3.0: Using GPS, Google, Satellites to Track Falcons from Chile to the Arctic

A friend sent me this story today from the Falcon Research Group: they’re using solar powered, GPS locator bands to track migrating Peregrine Falcons. The bands report in by satellite every 10 days - that location is automatically publicized with a nice Google Map on each bird’s tracking page.

Its a very Web 3.0 application - using several satellites, the interenet, people, digital photography, and a bunch of different technologies to tell these bird’s stories.

You can follow this particular project on the FRG blog (each bird has a Blogger label - here’s #7, for example, and here’s Houdini) - spread the word!