Autonomous acoustic sensors help researchers find endangered seabirds
Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 07:00
in Biology & Nature
Marbled murrelets are so secretive that biologists didn't even know where they nested until the 1970s, and monitoring the populations of these endangered seabirds remains a challenge. A new study, however, suggests that autonomous acoustic sensors used to detect and record murrelet calls could offer a viable alternative to surveys conducted by field biologists.