Triangulating from the cairns…
I propose to establish a transect, or potentially a small grid, of sensors for detecting radio tags on Broadtailed Hummingbirds or other migratory birds (tagged elsewhere) passing nearby. I would like to confirm an observation from several years ago that male hummingbirds fly about a thousand feet up the side of the valley to roost at night. I will collaborate with graduate student Katja Kochvar on her behavioral study of territorial male Broadtailed Hummingbirds. The sensors would be accessible to any other RMBL researchers who want to put radio tags on animals.
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