Automated recorders detect secretive marsh birds
Standing over a foot tall and covered in brown mottled feathers, the king rail is hard to track down amid the marshy reeds where it spends most of its time. The ...
Fieldnotes
Underwater videos improve hellbender conservation
Underwater videos can help researchers find hellbenders without damaging or permanently scaring them away the rocks where they nest. Eastern hellbenders ...
Fieldnote: Tracking mammal presence through soil DNA
Researchers are using trace residues that mammals leave in soil to better detect which species are present in a given area. “It was really cool yet challenging to ...
JWM: Choppers firing painkiller bait control tree snakes
Toxic bait cartridges automatically fired from helicopters may be the first successful way to efficiently reduce numbers of invasive brown tree snakes at the ...
WSB: Researchers capture pocket gophers by the bucket
Southeastern pocket gophers (Geomys pinetis) typically live in sandy soils with early successional plants they feed on in longleaf pine ecosystems in the ...
Remote-controlled device helps trap box-nesting birds
Wildlife managers can now capture birds by trapping them inside their nests using a remote-controlled device similar to a garage door opener. Dave Shutler, TWS ...
Tire “dummies” can help conservationist track dead sea otters
What does a sea otter and half a car tire have in common? They both float to the same places. Researchers looking for a way to better track possible sea otter ...
Fieldnotes: Acoustic Recorders Track Bird Activity
Recording devices present new opportunities for researchers to monitor bird populations, according to recently published studies. In California, researchers are ...
Eavesdropping on Tiger Roars Can Improve Conservation
Researchers have long been able to recognize a tiger by its stripes, but new techniques in sound recording may mean the stripes are no longer necessary — it could ...