Oct 8, 2020 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Dugongs are vulnerable herbivorous marine mammals living in tropical and subtropical coastal waters, including in coral reef lagoons. Their behaviour there is however little known. Argos enabled to track them in such environments around New Caledonia. Only surviving...
Oct 5, 2020 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Migratory birds from a given species are frequently observed to follow the same routes, and do so every year. Tracking different populations with Argos satellite telemetry shows a very different picture for some populations of the black-tailed godwit. Understanding...
Sep 14, 2020 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Some migratory birds change their breeding sites every year, or even several times in a season. Pectoral sandpipers are among them, and understanding their breeding behaviour thanks to Argos satellite telemetry can help to better protect them. The pectoral sandpiper...
Aug 31, 2020 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Tracking the behaviour of a large number of juvenile green turtles in contrasting environments using satellite telemetry enables to show behavioural differences across individuals. The green turtle (Chelonia mydas) is one of the seven species of sea turtles (with...
Aug 17, 2020 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Ruddy-headed goose is considered regionally endangered in Argentina and Chile, since recent estimates indicate that population size is less than 800 individuals. Ruddy-headed geese were tracked back and forth during their migrations over the South American continent...
Aug 3, 2020 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Dolphins do have a nightlife, but visual observation techniques cannot fully capture this. Also, coastal populations of dolphins sometimes occupy complex, labyrinthine habitats. Here too line-of-sight techniques fall short. Satellite telemetry doesn’t distinguish...