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...
Jan 25, 2022 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
The Great Knot is an endangered shorebird and a long-distance migrant. Its activity was found to be mainly along the coast and was suspected to have few stopovers; while juveniles were recorded moving approximately 3,000 km within ten days (Tomkovich, 1997). While we...