MK Geolocators for birds

From 0.38-2.9 g:
Appropriate for small to large birds

Download to PC through M-Series RS232/USB interface

Analysis using BASTrak software

Appropriate for migratory studies to investigate stopover places and timing, migration routes, wintering areas or non-breeding locations.

Geolocators require reasonable exposure to daylight which is important when considering whether this method is appropriate for your species. For example, when individuals use dark cavities or areas with heavy canopy, the light data gets erratic and this can be very difficult and sometimes impossible to analyse. This may only happen in periods when you do not need to know their location, e.g. birds breeding in nestboxes in the season when you can catch them, may not use cavities when they are on non-breeding grounds. Another time when light tends to get blocked, and frustrate geolocation, is when they incubate eggs and sit on legs that have geolocators.

Birds

Integrating Information from Geolocators, Weather Radar, and Citizen Science to Uncover a Key Stopover Area of an Aerial Insectivore
Andrew J. Laughlin, Caz M. Taylor, David W. Bradley, Dayna Leclair, Robert C. Clark, Russell D. Dawson, Peter O. Dunn, Andrew Horn, Marty Leonard, Daniel R. Sheldon, Dave Shutler, Linda A. Whittingham, David W. Winkler and D. Ryan Norris

Effects of geolocators on reproductive performance and annual return rates of a migratory songbird
Jesús Gómez, Chantel I. Michelson, David W. Bradley, D. Ryan Norris, Lisha L. Berzins, Russell D. Dawson and Robert G. Clark

Trans-Gulf of Mexico loop migration of tree swallows revealed by solar geolocation
David W. Bradley, Robert G. Clark, Peter O. Dunn, Andrew J. Laughlin, Caz M. Taylor, Carol M. Vleck, Linda A. Whittingham, David W. Winkler and D. Ryan Norris

Connectivity of wood thrush breeding, wintering, and migration sites based on range-wide tracking
Calandra Q. Stanley, Emily A. McKinnon, Kevin C. Fraser, Maggie P. Macpherson, Garth Casbourn, Lyle Friesen, Peter P. Marra, Colin Studds, T. Brandt Ryder, Nora E. Diggs and Bridget J. M. Stutchbury

Geolocators on Golden-winged Warblers do not affect migratory ecologySean M. Peterson, Henry M. Streby, Gunnar R. Kramer, Justin A. Lehman, David A. Buehler, and
David E. Andersen

Geolocator reveals migratory and winter movements of a Prothonotary Warbler
Jared D. Wolfe and Erik I. Johnson

Minimizing marker mass and handling time when attaching radio-transmitters and geolocators to small songbirds
Henry M. Streby, Tara L. McAllister, Sean M. Peterson, Gunnar R. Kramer, Justin A. Lehman, and David E. Andersen (2015)

A Trans-Hemispheric Migratory Songbird Does Not Advance Spring Schedules or Increase Migration Rate in Response to Record-SettingTemperatures at Breeding Sites.
Fraser KC, Silverio C, Kramer P, Mickle N, Aeppli R, etal. (2013)

Tracking from the Tropics Reveals Behaviour of Juvenile Songbirds on Their First Spring Migration.
McKinnon EA, Fraser KC, Stanley CQ, Stutchbury BJM (2014)

Hybrid songbirds employ intermediate routes in a migratory divide
Delmore, KE and Irwin, DE (2014)

Migratory movements of rhinoceros auklets in the northwestern Pacific: connecting seasonal productivities.
Takahashi, Akinori, Motohiro Ito, Yuuya Suzuki, Yutaka Watanuki, Jean-Baptiste Thiebot, Takashi Yamamoto, Takahiro Iida, Phil Trathan, Yasuaki Niizuma, and Tomohiro Kuwae (2015)

Light-level geolocation reveals wintering distribution, migration routes, and primary stopover locations of an endangered long-distance migratory songbird
Nathan W. Cooper, Michael T. Hallworth and Peter P. Marra

Migratory pathways, stopover zones and wintering destinations of Western European Nightjars Caprimulgus europaeus
Ruben Evens, Greg J. Conway, Ian G. Henderson, Brian Creswell, Frédéric Jiguet, Caroline Moussy, Didier Sénécal, Nele Witters, Natalie Beenaerts and Tom Artois

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