Title: Pennsylvania-tagged vultures sharing their travels via satellite and internet
Post by: Donna on 24-Feb-11, 09:44:22 PM
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary near Kempton has opened its satellite-tracking data for migrating turkey vultures to the public at its website, www.hawkmountain.org (http://www.hawkmountain.org), and at Science Buddies, www.sciencebuddies.org (http://www.sciencebuddies.org), a website that offers free science-fair project ideas, answers, and tools for students.
The new education venture dates to a 2009 NSF-sponsored workshop hosted by Hawk Mountain at its Acopian Center for Conservation Learning, at which more than 40 raptor-migration specialists from nine countries fashioned a better way to share their satellite-tracking data.
Hawk Mountain has been tracking turkey vultures with small satellite-based GPS units since 2003, and today continues to follow the movements of vultures tagged in Pennsylvania, California, western Canada and central Argentina.
The new education venture dates to a 2009 NSF-sponsored workshop hosted by Hawk Mountain at its Acopian Center for Conservation Learning, at which more than 40 raptor-migration specialists from nine countries fashioned a better way to share their satellite-tracking data.
Hawk Mountain has been tracking turkey vultures with small satellite-based GPS units since 2003, and today continues to follow the movements of vultures tagged in Pennsylvania, California, western Canada and central Argentina.
