{"id":625,"date":"2014-03-31T15:54:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T19:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/?p=625"},"modified":"2014-03-31T15:54:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T19:54:37","slug":"wildlife-research-goes-high-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/2014\/03\/31\/wildlife-research-goes-high-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife Research Goes High-tech!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2014\/03\/joan-with-NEBIR-caracara.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-626\" alt=\"joan with NEBIR caracara\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2014\/03\/joan-with-NEBIR-caracara.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2014\/03\/joan-with-NEBIR-caracara.jpg 700w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2014\/03\/joan-with-NEBIR-caracara-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2014\/03\/joan-with-NEBIR-caracara-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2014\/03\/joan-with-NEBIR-caracara-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While in Florida recently, Prof. Morrison successfully captured and tagged a Crested Caracara, the raptor she has been studying there for over 20 years.\u00a0 This caracara will be helping Prof Morrison test new transmitter technology.\u00a0 The transmitter, seen on the bird\u2019s back, operates on the cell phone networks, collecting accurate GPS locations on the bird every 3 hours then transmitting data to the cell towers every 12 hours.\u00a0 This transmitter operates using a solar-charged battery.\u00a0 After only a few weeks, a pretty good picture of the caracara\u2019s home range has emerged!\u00a0 The intent of this effort is to evaluate effectiveness of this new GPS\/GSM technology for eventual use in a longer term study focused on determining how breeding caracaras throughout Florida respond to habitat conversion within their home range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in Florida recently, Prof. Morrison successfully captured and tagged a Crested Caracara, the raptor she has been studying there for over 20 years.\u00a0 This caracara will be helping Prof Morrison test new transmitter technology.\u00a0 The transmitter, seen on the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/2014\/03\/31\/wildlife-research-goes-high-tech\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":573,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/573"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}