End of the breeding season: one more recovery, three more deployments

 

Brian and Eliza attach a PinPoint to a territorial male

The end of July marked the end of the breeding season for flammulated owls in Colorado. As fledglings left the nest and family groups began to disperse, we celebrated the recapture of three of our nine PinPoint birds this year (average recovery of GPS and Geolocator devices is historically about 30%). We also deployed three new PinPoints on different territorial males in hopes of adding to the migration data pool. A recovered PinPoint can be charged and reprogrammed to deploy year after year.

Thank you for your support with this project! We're excited that the research gets to continue into the next year. We hope to publish migration data in the coming years as we get a larger sample size.