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Monitoring Avian Species Species
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| Lotek's product line includes a number of devices for ornithologists wishing to monitor birds in the air or in the water. We offer a growing number of radio receiver, datalogger, transmitter and archival tag solutions that are ideally suited to avian research. | ||||||||||||||||
| Lotek's radio and archival technology have been used to study a variety of bird species. The list includes Western Sandpipers, Red Knots, Northern Fulmars, California Condors, Sooty Shearwaters, Bald Eagles, Thick-billed Murres, Mallards, and many more. | ||||||||||||||||
| Radio transmitters can be digitally encoded, allowing up to 212 birds to be uniquely identified on the same frequency. Conventional "beeper" transmitters are also available. Radio receivers can be used for automatic remote datalogging and downloading or for manual tracking. Archival tags provide temperature and dive depth profile information. Archival tags providing geolocation information, also known as Global Location Sensing or GLS tags, are also available. Contact one of our experts for details. |
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Lotek's telemetry instruments can monitor bird location, temperature, pressure/depth and light. This means that a variety of study questions can be addressed. Some examples include:
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| Lotek
offers a wide choice of receiver configurations, transmitters, archival
tags and accessories. If you are at all uncertain about which technology
might best serve your study, we'd be glad to help you sort through
the options to select the best system for your research needs.
In fact, the telemetry system design most suitable for a particular study is dependent upon a range of application-specific factors. We invite you to contact us for answers to your questions. Our application specialists will be happy to discuss individual tracking system requirements with you in detail, and assist you through all the stages of your project planning to ensure that your system design and data gathering capabilities are optimized for your study. |
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Freshwater
| Terrestrial | Marine
| Avian |
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