Argos Wildlife Tracking Whooper Swan animation
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Illustrates where Whooper swan were tracked using Argos Wildlife Tracking.
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Public Domain.
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Understanding the short- and long-distance movements of wildlife is critical for a wide variety of ecological research questions and management decisions. Since the mid-1980s, the USGS Alaska Science Center has used information from telemetry devices on wildlife species to determine locations of animals throughout their annual cycles, understand patterns of habitat use, quantify time spent on...
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