An action photo of Mama hooded vulture. You can see the band on her right leg, each bird has a unique banding. The birds which there are fewer off tend to each have a unique color on a specific leg, so that it's easy to tell which is which from a distance. For the birds we have lots of together, like the lovebirds or flamingos, there's a number on each band. There's a lot of animals named mama or papa. Mama vulture, other mama vulture, papa hornbill, papa hippo... The males tend to get the when they're old and wise, the females when they're moms.