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2015 Recipients

DETECTING THE WORLD'S RAREST APE: IMPROVING MONITORING EFFORTS FOR THE HAINAN GIBBON.


2015, 4th Quarter
DR. JESSICA BRYANT, THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON

Dr. Bryant and the Zoological Society of London will use Song Meter SM3 recorders in the rugged regions of the Bawangling National Nature Reserve on Hainan Island to monitor the world's rarest ape and one of the world's rarest mammals, the Critically Endangered Hainan gibbon. Song Meters will be used to detect the existing gibbon groups and monitor their movements within the reserve. Song Scope analysis software will be used to analyse the results

UNDERSTANDING FOREST RAPTOR DYNAMICS IN THE SOUTHERN YELLOWSTONE ECOSYSTEM.


2015, 4th Quarter
BRYAN BEDROSIAN, TETON RAPTOR CENTER

Mr. Bedrosian will be using Song Meter SM3 acoustic recorders to conduct the first study on the community dynamics of boreal raptors of the southern region of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Song Meters will be deployed throughout the area to collect night call data from different species of owls followed by pre-dawn surveys of goshawks. The results will be analysed using Song Scope analysis software

KOALA POPULATION DENSITY STUDY


2015, 3rd Quarter
DR. DESLEY WHISSON, DEAKIN UNIVERSITY, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA

Dr. Whisson will be using bioacoustic monitoring to detect the presence of koalas. The project aims to correlate vocalisation activity with relative koala population density. Dr. Whisson will be deploying Song Meter SM3 acoustic recorders in Victoria's Otway Ranges to capture male koala vocalisation data. The results will be analysed using Song Scope analysis software.

FLORIDA BONNETED BAT RESEARCH


2015, 3rd Quarter
MARK DANAHER, FLORIDA PANTHER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE AND FRIENDS OF THE FLORIDA PANTHER REFUGE

The refuge has partnered with researchers from the University of Florida Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation and the Friends of the Florida Panther Refuge to learn more about the natural history of the federally endangered Florida bonneted bat (Eumops floridanus). The team of collaborators will be using the Song Meter SM3BAT detector/recorder, the Echo Meter Touch bat detector/recorder/analyser and Kaleidoscope Pro 3 analysis software to discover more about the location and behaviour of what is considered to be one of North America's rarest mammals.

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