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- Title
Capturing American White Ibises in urban South Florida using two novel techniques.
- Authors
Adams, Henry; Murray, Maureen H.; Welch, Catherine; Kidd-Weaver, Anjelika; Ellison, Taylor; Curry, Shannon; Hepinstall‐Cymerman, Jeffery; Hernandez, Sonia M.
- Abstract
As many wildlife species, including wading birds, adapt to anthropogenic landscapes and, in some cases, exhibit altered behaviors, studies that involve capturing birds may require new methods better suited for use in urban areas and to accommodate altered animal behavior. We developed two novel techniques, a leg lasso and flip net, for capturing American White Ibises (Eudocimus albus) in urban environments in southern Florida, and also used a traditional technique (mist‐nets) in non‐urban wetland habitats. The flip net and leg lasso were developed to capture White Ibises habituated to the presence of humans. Ibises were captured in urban and wetland environments from October 2015 to August 2017 in Palm Beach, Broward, and Lee counties, Florida. We captured 6.0 ± 13.5 ibis/h with the flip net, 1.6 ± 0.8 ibis/h with the leg lasso, and 0.5 ± 2.6 ibis/h with mist‐nets. We captured larger (higher mass to tarsus length ratio) birds using the flip net and leg lasso than using mist‐nets, and captured more males with leg lassos than with other two techniques. The novel techniques we used are efficient, cost effective, easy to use, and also potentially useful for capturing other species of birds. Leg lassos and flip nets are also safe to use in populated areas for both birds and humans.
- Subjects
FLORIDA; BROWARD County (Fla.); ANIMAL behavior; CICONIIFORMES; CITIES &; towns; URBAN ecology; LEG
- Publication
Journal of Field Ornithology, 2019, Vol 90, Issue 4, p373
- ISSN
0273-8570
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jofo.12311