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Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes

Titre :	Floating mist nets: a technique for capturing birds in flooded habitat
Auteurs :	Mark G. Pollock, Auteur ; Eben H. Paxton, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Journal of Field Ornithology (77(3) SUM 2006)
Article en page(s) :	335-338
Langues:	Anglais
Résumé :	Banding birds is essential for detailed demographic studies of avian populations. Mist nets are a widely used, effective method of capturing birds for banding, but are difficult to use under certain conditions. While conducting a demographic study of Southwestern Willow Flycatchers (Empidonax traillii extimus), rising reservoir levels flooded large tracts of flycatcher breeding habitat and made traditional mist-netting techniques impossible to use. In response, we devised a technique for capturing birds over deep water using mist nets suspended between poles kept afloat on compact buoys. In 2005, we used this technique to safely capture 17 Willow Flycatchers that could not have been captured by any other means, and over 40 additional passerines were incidentally captured with no injuries occurring. This versatile apparatus was simple to build and employ, and capture success was similar to that over dry land.

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