May 14, 2024 | Birds, Wildlife Monitoring
Red phalaropes are migratory birds breeding in the North American continent and wintering in pelagic regions of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans from northern California to Peru/Chile. Argos helps to known more about their migratory routes and behaviors. Red phalaropes...
May 2, 2024 | Marine Animals, Wildlife Monitoring
Some marine areas, such as the Wadden Sea, along the North Sea coasts of Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands, are of special interest. Among the species found there, the harbour porpoises are considered as essential components of the ecosystem. Argos helps in...
Apr 2, 2024 | Birds, Wildlife Monitoring
Guillemots are seabirds with an original departure from the nest. Once on the sea, they migrate with their father to autumn staging areas. Argos satellite telemetry helps in better understand this travel, and assess whether they use the currents, how long and where to...
Mar 26, 2024 | Herding, News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Smart Agriculture, Wildlife Monitoring
Instrumenting animals with transmitters has been done for a number of years, in particular using the ARGOS satellite system, to gain knowledge on their ecology, assess species vulnerability to environmental changes and/or species distributions. Nowadays, those...
Mar 18, 2024 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Flatback turtles are marine turtles endemic to the Australian continental shelf. Few information is available on them, which hinder conservation measures. Satellite tracking and stable isotope analysis of females nesting in eastern Queensland, Australia, were used to...
Mar 4, 2024 | Birds, Wildlife Monitoring
Andean Flamingos are wetland birds that move between high-altitude Andean and lowland wetlands. They are the rarest of all flamingo species, and most of their life cycle is not well known. Using Argos to assess their habitat use and movements in a context of...
