Keyword: Mist netting
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BIR049-00100
Trapping and banding the federally endangered Florida grasshopper sparrow at Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park.
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ANI082-00049
Biologists capture a male bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) near Wood River, Nebraska. They will put tiny geolocators, which track sun intensity as well as sunrise and sunset, the birds’ backs. When the birds are recaptured (months from now) and the data is downloaded and used to calculate the birds’ migratory route. The species winters in South America, but little is known of its specific route.
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ANI082-00050
Biologists capture a male bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) near Wood River, Nebraska. They will put tiny geolocators, which track sun intensity as well as sunrise and sunset, the birds’ backs. When the birds are recaptured (months from now) and the data is downloaded and used to calculate the birds’ migratory route. The species winters in South America, but little is known of its specific route.
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BIR033-00012
A dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis) caught in a mist net at the Sutton Avian Research Center, Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
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BIR027-00008
A biologist removes an endangered California gnatcatcher from mist netting near Fullerton, CA.
