Birds and mammals
Cutting-edge wildlife services using a broad range of standard as well as advanced satellite-based monitoring techniques are our key expertise. Our comprehensive surveys and impact assessments provide crucial data on bird species and small as well as medium-sized mammals including bats, across agricultural and natural environments, supporting sustainable agriculture, biodiversity conservation and habitat restoration efforts.
Our methodologies:
- Census Techniques: Territory mapping, line transects, point counts and transects, capture-mark-recapture live trapping, camera traps, thermal imaging, hair tubes, track tunnels.
- Breeding and Reproductive Biology: Measuring breeding success, finding and monitoring nests, chick survival and nest success, causes of breeding failure, signs at the nest, cameras and temperature loggers, artificial nests, annual productivity, timing of breeding, egg and chick measurements, relative comparison of breeding females and juveniles, artificial underground nest chambers for voles or mice, population development, population monitoring.
- Movement Patterns and Survival Estimation: Survival rates (radio-telemetry, capture-recapture, individual marking), movement tracking (radio tracking, GPS tracking), giving-up density, Cox hazard analysis.
- Information from Dead Animals: Carcass sampling, postmortem examinations, interpretation of findings.
- Physiology Techniques: Blood sampling.
- Diet and Foraging Behaviour: Diet composition (direct and nest observations, stomach content, faeces analysis, DNA metabarcoding), foraging behaviour (time budgets, food/prey availability, brood provisioning).
- Habitat Assessment and Preferences: Physical environment, vegetation structure and composition, mapping habitat types, quantifying habitat selection, habitat use and preferences, food and predator abundance, disturbance.
