Wildlife research
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Photos
All photos © Norm Smith |
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Bald eagle in the Aleutian Islands,
AK
Biologists checking nesting success
Weighing and measuring nestlings.
Such indignities for a national bird.
Sometimes the parents don't appreciate the
attention to their nests:
thus, a stick is held above the researchers
to distract any attack.
Part of an urban study, biologists enlist
the aid of youngsters as they examine and record nestling observations.
Cooper's hawks are trapped in a mist-net,
set early in the morning.
Extracting an adult Cooper's hawk from
a "mist-net".
Drawing blood for disease study.
Shaft of tail-feather is prepared to attach
a radio-transmitter.
The radio-transmitter is glued to the base
of a tail-feather. The cardboard isolates the feather to which
the transmitter is attached...
...and radio-tracked.
Net-gunning Coues' white-tailed deer
in Southern Arizona.
After vital measurements are taken and the
radio-transmitter is attached the unharmed deer is released.
Desert Mule deer with radio-transmitter in
Saguaro National Park.
Kit fox in a live-trap
Graduate student weighs.........
............and releases.........
.....to the extreme joy of the fox.
Radio-tracking the nocturnal Kit fox
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| Bald eagle in the Aleutian Islands, AK | Biologists checking nesting success | Weighing and measuring nestlings. |
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| Such indignities for a national bird. | Sometimes the parents don't appreciate the attention to their nests: | thus, a stick is held above the researchers to distract any attack. |
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| Part of an urban study, biologists enlist the aid of youngsters as they examine and record nestling observations. | Cooper's hawks are trapped in a mist-net, set early in the morning. | Extracting an adult Cooper's hawk from a "mist-net". |
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| Drawing blood for disease study. | Shaft of tail-feather is prepared to attach a radio-transmitter. | The radio-transmitter is glued to the base of a tail-feather. The cardboard isolates the feather to which the transmitter is attached... |
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| ...and radio-tracked. | Net-gunning Coues' white-tailed deer in Southern Arizona. | |
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| After vital measurements are taken and the radio-transmitter is attached the unharmed deer is released. | Desert Mule deer with radio-transmitter in Saguaro National Park. | Kit fox in a live-trap |
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| Graduate student weighs......... | ............and releases......... | .....to the extreme joy of the fox. |
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| Radio-tracking the nocturnal Kit fox | ||
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