A chick of a black-tailed Godwit runs away after it has been ringed at a bank of Pripiat river.
A chick of a black-tailed Godwit runs away after it has been ringed at a bank of Pripiat river, near the town of Turov, some 270 km (167 miles) south of Minsk, May 20, 2005. Researchers from the Belarussian Academy of Sciences ring the birds at the flood-lands of the southern river to monitor their routes from south to north-east every spring. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko VF/YH