Dec 17, 2019 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
The lesser kestrel is a small falcon migrating from Europe to Africa. A study using a large dataset of tracked birds made it possible assess the differences of migration paths and African arrival points depending on their breeding regions in Europe. This can used in...
Dec 13, 2019 | Hardwares, Herding, News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Pollution, Smart Agriculture, Wildlife Monitoring
Have you ever wanted to design your own Argos satellite transmitter? Now it’s possible! CLS and the Arribada Initiative are pleased to announce a new open-source reference design by Icoteq, Ltd. Used with the ARTIC R2 chipset, a low power Argos 2/3/4 single chip...
Dec 6, 2019 | Argos Forum, News
Understanding the impact of narwhals in the Arctic Monitoring the reintroduction into the wild of California condors Gaining insight into interactions between sunfish and fisheries Changing summer habits of Russian polar bears Studying interactions between penguins...
Dec 6, 2019 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Weddell seals are the most southerly breeding mammal species. They are found among other places in the Weddell Sea, but their behaviour and foraging strategies are not well-known, in an area itself largely unknown. Scientists at the Alfred Wegener Institut tracked...
Nov 29, 2019 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Deep-sea species are scarcely known. However, a team at the University of Windsor in Canada has devised a means of tracking porcupine crabs living at 900 m depth. Pop-up archival tags programmed to release at regular intervals emitted data, collected by Argos,...
Nov 19, 2019 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Crocodilians are tropical wetland ecosystems’ top predators, but they are rarely studied. Black caimans, which live between Central America and the northern part of South America, saw their population drop by 90 % in the 20th century. To have a better understanding of...
