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Now open source: movebank-mirror-api 0.0.1 - a small local server that re-serves the Movebank REST API from a directory of mirrored studies. Point any Movebank-API client at localhost; works offline, fast.
github.com/mcb77/movebank-mi…
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Arribada's new standalone Argos transmitter is now available. No additional microcontroller required 🐢🐦⬛🐳🦈🌊
It's World Turtle Day 2026! 🐢 🌏
What better news for turtle telemetry than Arribada's news too that we have released a standalone Argos / Kinéis transmitter. The 𝗔𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗮𝗱𝗮 𝗦𝗠𝗗 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲.
You can now develop your own Argos tags arribada.org/arribada-smd
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Big milestone unlocked! 🚀
Antenna path measured, matching network tuned, firmware updated - ready to test GPS with the Ignion (@ignionrf) RUN mXTEND™ (NN02-224) Virtual Antenna® on "Not a Tag"!
Ditching bulky ceramic patches for this tiny 12×3×2.4mm beast. Ground-truth data for Firetail (firetail.de) coming soon from eastern Crete rolling hills.
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🐦 Also open-sourcing this one out of years of private internal tooling: movebank-mirror 0.0.1.
A CLI + library that pulls Movebank studies to a local file/folder structure and keeps them in sync.
Per-study JSON metadata, per-(tag, sensor type) CSVs. Resumable. Friendly to the live API.
👉 github.com/mcb77/movebank-mi…
#Movebank #OpenScience #JavaDev
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After years of carrying it around as private code, I cleaned it up and shipped it: a Java client for the Movebank REST API is now on Github and Maven Central.
Bonus: a mirror tool + offline replay server land next.
👉 github.com/mcb77/movebank-ap…
#Movebank #OpenScience #JavaDev #AnimalTracking
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⏳1 week until #ICTC2026!
After months of planning, we’re nearly ready to welcome hundreds to Lima for the first-ever International Conservation Technology Conference.
🛠️20 workshops
🎤300+ sessions
💡25 exhibitors
🌟6 plenaries
Explore the agenda: agenda.ictc2026.com/
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Cheetahs are declining across much of their range in Africa. Researchers are monitoring their numbers in a massive wilderness in Zambia to see how they are doing in one of their few bastions.
Read the full story: wildlife.org/wild-cam-tracki…
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✈️ Coming to #ICTC2026 in February? Now’s the time to book your travel to Lima, Peru!
🏨 The Westin venue room block is open until this Friday, Jan 16
💻 Our logistics page has additional partner hotel options and travel tips
👉 Learn more and book at logistics.ictc2026.com/
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Three decades of satellite data reveal a surprising culprit behind tropical carbon loss.
Using data from @esaclimate’s RECCAP-2 and Biomass projects, scientists found that small deforestation clearings – often under two hectare – are behind more than half of total losses since 1990.
esa.int/Applications/Observi…
📸LSCE–Y. Xu/ESA
ALT Disturbed tropical forest patch sizes.
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Google Earth Engine Python Tutorial: How to predict Forest Carbon?
Tutorial Link: youtu.be/vzdXGdcNDwg?si=yRqf…
For more information about registration, visit our website: studyhacksgeospatial.com/goo…
#forestcarbon #googleearthengine #pythontutorial #carbonprediction #sustainability
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🎉15 DAYS TO GO! 🎉
First celebrated in 1997 and a @UN International Day since 2022, #WorldWetlandsDay honours the beauty and value of wetlands.
Details: worldwetlandsday.org
#WorldWetlandsDay2026 #CelebratingWetlands
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Gladly sharing a recent paper that investigates the diel patterns of predation events in wild turkeys using tri‐axial accelerometer with Firetail: Wightman et al., 2025:
wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley…
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Join us live from the field in Cali, Colombia on December 11 at 12 PM PT/3 PM ET for a conversation with biologists Santiago Muñoz and Juan David García. On our last stop of our Bird Migration Celebration Tour, we’ll be exploring the latest of migration science. Tune in here: bit.ly/4q21Q2Z
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This new paper by Goodman et al. employs Firetail to determine the onset of laying and incubation using spatial‐temporal data to analyze the impact of lymphoproliferative disease virus on behaviors of wild turkeys: wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley…
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New paper on time budgets based on 3-axis accelerometer and a gyroscope data, featuring Firetail: "Sensor-based analysis of behaviour time budgets in young warmblood stallions entering initial preparation for licensing":
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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New Paper! 🦌
Here we looked at the effects of opening winter enclosures on red deer movement and local browsing pressure. Winter home ranges increased six times when fences were opened, but browsing pressure decreased near open fences enclosures.🌱
📜doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.202…
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Researchers have developed a drone and AI system that can automatically count waterfowl and map habitats with more than 80% accuracy, cutting weeks of fieldwork down to a single day. wildlife.org/counting-ducks-…
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Paper alert!🛰️ We show that thermal infrared hyperspectral data can predict LAI with high accuracy using PLSR & neural nets! Key wavebands (8.1–10.3 μm) work across sensors & conditions - boosting future satellite missions like LandsatNext & CopernicusLSTM doi.org/10.3390/rs17233820
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Posting a wild turkey photo every day until our boss tells us to stop.
Wild turkeys can make more than 30 different vocalizations, from soft purrs to loud yelps to gobble gobbles. If they had a group chat, you’d definitely mute it.
📸 John Mack (sharetheexperience)
ALT Close-up of a wild turkey with iridescent brown feathers and a blue, red, and white head calling out in a natural grassy setting.
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Did you know that Wild Turkeys come in an array of colors beyond the classic chestnut look? Genetic conditions can give a variety of rare colorations to the Wild Turkey, a beloved North American icon: bit.ly/44qlGMF
ALT A photo of a Wild Turkey with a smoke morph standing on snow. Credit: Deborah Roy/Audubon Photography Awards