Remote monitoring of nesting falcons

Read the paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2010.00064.x/abstract

Sara Kross, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, shows her fieldsite in New Zealand and a new, portable low-cost remote videography system for monitoring wildlife, developed with Ximena Nelson.

Sara and Ximena developed this method to study the nesting behaviour of the New Zealand falcon in the New Zealand High Country. Sara shows that the camera is relatively cheap and easy to transport in a backpack. The camera uses solar batteries and compressed videos so that it can be left in the field for up to 4 days at a time. The footage recovered has been used so far for research but also for conservation and education purposes.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• remote videography
• birds of prey
• falcons
• ecology
• New Zealand
• animal behaviour
• birds
• fieldwork
• nesting
• conservation
• digital video recording
• British Ecological Society
• University of Canterbury
• Canon New Zealand
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