Aug 1, 2022 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Migratory birds, especially those which depend on coastal wetland habitats, are among the threatened animals. Identifying the key sites in their life cycle, including the stopovers used during migration, is important for conservation efforts. Argos satellite...
Jun 20, 2022 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Uncovering how young animals learn to move efficiently and find food, is one of the many possible uses of satellite telemetry. Here, researchers from British Antarctic Survey satellite-tracked juvenile grey-headed albatrosses to understand the effect of environmental...
May 25, 2022 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
One of the mysteries of migrant animals is their ability to find their way back and forth during their long-range travels. Several hypothesis were tested on Egyptian geese to try to understand their navigation capacity. It seems they learn their way around. Photo:...
Mar 31, 2022 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Red kites are medium-sized partially migratory raptor. They often winter in Spain, but their behaviour there and during those non-breeding periods have not been extensively studied using satellite telemetry. A team used PTTs to understand better this season for those...
Mar 14, 2022 | Birds, Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
King penguins are living around Antarctica, breeding on some of the sub-Antarctic islands. A new colony seems to have been established in Magellan strait, showing the high plasticity of the species. Argos enables to better understand the new colony behaviour. King...
Feb 18, 2022 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Tracking a European shorebird called the Black-tailed godwit (Limosa l. limosa) has previously revealed that different populations of godwits have different migratory behaviours (see Black-tailed godwits’ different migration behaviours). Those findings also hinted...
