Research Sponsoring Hens with Mallard Tracker By Mallard Posted on February 8, 2016 2 min read Comments Off on Sponsoring Hens with Mallard Tracker 0 3,748 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Reddit Share on Pinterest Share on Linkedin Share on Tumblr Do you enjoy following Mallard Tracker this fall and looking for a way to get more involved? Consider sponsoring one of our GPS equipped Mallards for exclusive access to movement and survival information on your duck and other sponsored birds through our Mallard Tracker Sponsors Program. Sponsoring a Mallard will not only mean a featured biography of you or your sponsored group on our Mallard Tracker page and access to follow the birds daily movements in Google Earth, but it will also include receiving a tax receipt for your donation to Long Point Waterfowl’s research. By following the hens in Google Earth, you can see every individual movement tracked for each sponsored bird that our GPS units record. Location data will be posted with a one-week delay to ensure the safety of our birds. These Google Earth maps Joy-septare interactive and allow users to zoom in/out and click each point to determine information such as time of day, date and follow these movements to the bird’s next location. To give you an idea of the information available, we have included a screenshot of the Google Earth maps available to sponsors in this post. This specific map is of NODU26 named Joy, Joy is sponsored by the Southwest Outdoors Club, who are also featured in the photo at the beginning of this article.
LPW has a great showing at the North American Duck Symposium Staff and students from Long Point Waterfowl attended the 7th North American Duck Symposium in early February 2016. This symposium draws together researchers, government, non-government conservation organizations, and industry representatives to address shared priorities for waterfowl and wetland conservation and management. We had 4 oral and 2 poster presentations with LPW affiliations at the symposium. Of which Matt Dyson (Western University) won 2nd place for the best MSc oral presentation and Elyse Iemola (SUNY ESF) won the best undergraduate poster award. With 430 attendees and many of them students, this was a huge accomplishment, the competition was abundant.