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Tracking Rehabilitated Brown Pelicans: A Breakthrough in Wildlife Research

When a rehabilitated pelican is released back into the wild, what happens next? Does it survive? Where does it go? These are the critical questions driving researcher and principal investigator Deborah Jaques of Pacific Eco Logic. In partnership with the Oiled Wildlife Care Network (OWCN), Pelican Science, and a host of collaborators across the U.S. and Mexico, Jaques and her team are tracking the post-rehabilitation movements and survival of California Brown Pelicans.

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by Kelly Ball

Thrilling Thrush Tracks

Since 2020, BIRD Program at Warner Park Nature Center staff and volunteers have deployed 62 HybridTags on three thrush species: 33 Swainson’s Thrush, 21 Gray-cheeked Thrush, and 8 Veery. Of those, only 12 have been tagged during spring migration: 7 Swainson’s Thrush, 3 Gray-cheeked Thrush, and 2 Veery. Until this year,...
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by Kelly Ball

Tracking Horseshoe Crab Migration in the Delaware Bay

The Delaware Bay is a hotspot of sorts for spawning horseshoe crabs, and this can be witnessed during May and June during the peak of their spawning season. Their spawning coincides with the movement of ravenous migratory shorebirds along the Atlantic Flyway. When the temperature of the Delaware Bay's shallow,...
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by Kelly Ball

Field Trip to Philly's Academy of Natural Sciences

When the Academy of Natural Sciences' Associate Curator of Ornithology, Jason Weckstein, and Senior Exhibition Designer, Lauren Duguid, approached our Sales & Marketing team last autumn to see if we'd be up for loaning some of our cool gear to fill out their Technology Tracking display, we were super excited and...
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Guest Post: American Bitterns in Connecticut

In affiliation with Min Huang of Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (CT DEEP) and Chris Elphick of the University of Connecticut, in March of 2022, we began fieldwork to tag Connecticut's American Bitterns (AMBI). Gathering information about AMBI's nesting biology, habitat distribution, and migratory behavior is both time-consuming and challenging. However, attaining annual cycle...