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A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/falcons-migration-angola-falcopolis

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49540253

#HackerNews #falcons #wildlife #conservation #animalmigration #naturestory

Canadian Wildlife Federation: New App Encourages Canadians to Explore Aquatic Barriers Blocking Fish Migration. “The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is calling on all Canadians to help monitor freshwater connectivity through the new Canadian Fish Passage Assessment (CANFISHPASS) app, a free mobile tool that helps identify barriers potentially restricting fish movement in rivers, streams and […]

Vagrancy (biology) (Phytogeography 🌱)

Vagrancy is a phenomenon in biology whereby an individual animal appears well outside its normal range; they are known as vagrants. The term accidental is sometimes also used. There are a number of poorly understood factors which might cause an animal to become a vagrant, including internal causes such as n...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagrancy_(biology)

#Vagrancy #Phytogeography #WaywardAnimals #AnimalMigration #BiologyTerminology #EcologyTerminology

Animal migration tracking (Zoology 🦥)

Animal migration tracking is used in wildlife biology, conservation biology, ecology, and wildlife management to study animals' behavior in the wild. One of the first techniques was bird banding, placing passive ID tags on birds legs, to identify the bird in a future catch-and-release. Radio tracking involves attaching a small radi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_migration_tracking

#AnimalMigrationTracking #Zoology #Geopositioning #AnimalMigration