Tag: GPS tracking

Eastern whip-poor-wills are declining in some of their breeding grounds in the Midwestern U.S., and biologists haven’t been sure why. They thought the problem might lie in their wintering grounds,...

Turkeys in Illinois use both burned and unburned areas, depending on where they are in the reproductive cycle, researchers found. They say the finding points to how managers can use...

By understanding how weather and other factors affect wild pig behavior, managers can better understand when and where to target mitigation techniques. “Pigs are such a generalist species, and a...

Inexpensive, store-bought GPS tracking devices work just as well as expensive professional gear for surveying tortoises that spend much of their time underground. University of Georgia researchers were looking for...

Russian cosmonauts have installed an antenna on the International Space Station to help a team of scientists track animals. The operation was part of a German-led project known as Icarus,...

Rather than using their historical migratory stopovers, Barnacle geese (Branta leucopsis) have begun making nonstop journeys from the Netherlands to their Arctic breeding grounds. Scientists say the reason is climate...

Roads fragmenting the threatened Mojave Desert tortoise’s habitat put the slow animal in danger of being run over by whooshing vehicles. But roadside fencing installed to keep it out of...

Humans and bears might not be all that different when it comes to responding to drones flying overhead. A new study shows that when researchers flew these unmanned aerial vehicles...

Researchers have long been in the dark about what some caribou populations eat during the summer. It’s difficult to find droppings before they rot away in the warmer weather, and...

Nobody knew precisely where it came from, and it didn’t have a particularly remarkable name when researchers first discovered it in September 2014 in the Seversen Dells Nature Preserve in...