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saw-whet owl telemetry
They can’t all spend the night..
And so we learned with a recent saw-whet that we attempted to track. She was released from the banding station at around 10pm and we tracked her for several hours but by 3 am she was gone, presumably having flown to the south out of range of our equipment. This is a picture of Feist, [...]
What does a saw-whet do at night?
Well, let me tell you… We have now been tracking Isra for over 2 weeks now, with a lot of good data coming from our long nights at King’s Gap and in the Michaux State Forest. With the migration season in full swing for the owls, we are now starting to hear the strange barks [...]
Esmerelda and her food
The newest saw-whet owl with a transmitter is Esmerelda. Here she is with breakfast in her talons. Does anyone know what it is?
Fall Owl job
A couple weeks ago I started at a new job as the field tech for the Northern Saw-whet Owl telemetry project run by the Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art in central PA. So far most of the time has been spent training and waiting for the owls to begin migrating thru our area. [...]
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