Vandir and I shot this movie a while ago, of a young parrot equipped with a radio transmitter being fed by one of its parents. Can you see the antenna?!
This was a male young parrot, which received the transmitter in November 2007, three days before its first flight.
The objective of this monitoring is to follow the young on its first months, to verify the behavior and health status. We monitor the birds every month, by direct observation, with a receptor and a portable directional antenna. The coordinates of these birds will are used to determine its home range by the minimum convex polygon method.
This is the first time that we had registered this kind of images! We are very happy to share them with you! We intend to acquire more radio transmitters with the support of the donors, to get to know even better about this species.
I hope you like it!
And keep an eye in our blog, as more and more videos are coming soon! ;0)
Glaucia
Donations made here are
Dec 30th Joann M USD 57.50