Electricity, meanwhile, is delivered via a conductive brush that sweeps around a metal ring in the stationary base.
Involving more than 2000 trained volunteers, a small, uniquely numbered metal ring is fitted on the legs of more than 800, 000 birds.
Think of it as a bumper for your body, a protruding metal ring that repels scurrying souls from coming closer than two feet from you.
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An identifying serial number engraved onto the metal ring, which has the brand's logo on it, allows the yarn in the shawl to be traced back to the batch it originally came from.
It was reported that a migratory bird - a common European bee-eater - caused alarm in a village in south-eastern Turkey after it was found dead in a field with a metal ring around its leg stamped "Israel".
When Dawn Giugliano woke up from an hour-long nap on a beach in Puerto Rico last year, the 27-year-old Long Islander claims she got quite a surprise: The metal ring attaching the cups of her Victoria's Secret bikini top had seared a mark in her chest.
There was a barrier between him and the ring, like the metal bars of a jail.
He came across the ring while out with his metal detector in February 2004.
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The ring was found at Escrick, south of York, by a metal detectorist in 2009.
One man dug through the twisted metal and charred remains of what once was his home, searching for his wife's wedding ring and the family safe with a firefighter's hook he'd commandeered from his New York Fire Department job.
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