[FoxHunt] Monitors and RDFers needed for owl radio tags

[foxhunt@mailman.qth.net]

The fall migration time for Burrowing Owls is here, and for the fifth year, 
volunteer monitors are needed to help determine the routes and winter 
destinations of these threatened birds.

In previous years, hams helped scientists determine that owls hatching during 
summer months in the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta travel 
over central states from North Dakota to Oklahoma, ending up in southeast 
Texas and northern states of Mexico.  They sometimes fly over 2000 miles to 
their winter homes.

There aren't any radio-tagged Canadian owls to listen for this fall.  
Instead, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at University of 
Arizona is asking for ham help with 53 transmittered owls from eastern 
Washington state.  If you live in the western USA and can receive 150 MHz 
signals, you could help.  Your scanner or extended-range hand-held Amateur 
Radio transceiver, plus an outside antenna, are all you need to join in.  If 
you have radio direction finding equipment for VHF, so much the better.

More information on how to monitor, including all the frequencies, plus 
equipment and antenna suggestions, can be found at <www.homingin.com>.  That 
site also tells how to join the BIOTRACKERS mailing list for latest updates 
and discussions of wildlife tracking topics.

Many thanks for your help,
Joe Moell
www.homingin.com