Capture and injury rates of Band-tailed Pigeons using whoosh nets
| Autor: | Scott A. Carleton, Daniel P. Collins, Christopher L. Coxen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0106 biological sciences
Ecology biology biology.organism_classification 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences 010605 ornithology Fishery Trap (computing) Shot (pellet) Large study Patagioenas fasciata Environmental science Animal Science and Zoology Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics |
| Zdroj: | The Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 130:321-326 |
| ISSN: | 1938-5447 1559-4491 |
| Popis: | Catching ground feeding birds has typically been accomplished through small, walk-in funnel-style traps. This approach is limited because it requires a bird to find its way into the trap, is biased toward less wary birds, and does not allow targeted trapping of individual birds. As part of a large study on Band-tailed Pigeons (Patagioenas fasciata) in New Mexico, we needed a trapping method that would allow more control over the number of birds we could trap at one time, when a trap was deployed, and target trapping of specific individuals. We adopted a relatively novel trapping technique used primarily for shorebirds, whoosh nets, to trap Band-tailed Pigeons at 3 different sites where birds were being fed by local landowners. During 2013–2015, whoosh nets were used to trap 702 Band-tailed Pigeons at 3 different locations in New Mexico. We captured 12.54 ± 8.19 pigeons per shot over 56 capture events across 3 locations (range: 2–39). Some superficial injuries occurred using this technique and typ... |
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