{"id":2903,"date":"2025-03-04T20:13:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T19:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeconnectricoti.com\/?p=2903"},"modified":"2025-03-04T20:13:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T19:13:38","slug":"tracking-duponts-lark-using-radiotelemetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeconnectricoti.com\/en\/tracking-duponts-lark-using-radiotelemetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking Dupont\u2019s Lark Using Radiotelemetry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Radiotracking (or radiotelemetry) is a useful method for monitoring small-sized birds for which GPS-GSM transmitters are not available. This technique requires the use of VHF (\u201cvery high frequency\u201d) transmitters, receivers, and antennas\u2014similar to conventional radio systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of the LIFE Connect Ricot\u00ed project, birds are equipped with coded VHF transmitters weighing around one gram, which are attached using a thoracic harness by trained personnel. This tracking system allows researchers to assess the effectiveness of translocations, survival rates of tagged individuals, presence or absence in specific locations, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photograph 1.<\/em><\/strong>Manual tracking using radiotelemetry in the locality of Atienza (Guadalajara).\u00a0<\/em>Credits: <\/em><\/strong>Esther Murciano<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of the translocation program, fixed radiotracking stations have been installed in both source and destination locations to detect both control and translocated individuals. Additionally, manual tracking rounds (using mobile antennas and receivers) are conducted along a predefined network of points to increase the detection rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This process is especially important at the end of the translocation period to assess the recruitment rate of translocated individuals in the destination sites, monitor control individuals in their original areas, and locate birds that have not been detected by the fixed antennas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photograph 2.<\/strong> Manual tracking using radiotelemetry in the locality of Valeria (Cuenca).
Credits:<\/strong> No\u00e9 Cuesta<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fieldwork over the past weeks has focused on the localities of Atienza, Torrubia, Embid, Valeria, and Pedro Izquierdo. All these areas are located in the Castilla-La Mancha region and have served as either source or destination sites for the translocations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All control individuals have been detected in their original areas (Atienza and Torrubia). Regarding the translocated birds, three individuals have been located in Valeria so far, two of them females. Interestingly, two birds have returned to their original areas from the sites where they were translocated: one from Pedro Izquierdo to Torrubia\u2014approximately 115 kilometers away\u2014translocated this year; and another from Embid to Atienza, translocated last year, covering a distance of 150 kilometers between localities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Radiotracking (or radiotelemetry) is a useful method for monitoring small-sized birds for which GPS-GSM transmitters are not available. This technique …<\/p>\n

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