Sentences with word «geolocator»

In 2011, Stuart Pimm, an ecologist at Duke University, and colleagues attached geolocators to 25 sooty terns.

But even the tiniest geolocators are too big for the hummingbird, so researchers have yet to track the hummingbird's migration over the Gulf of Mexico.

Independently, in 2013, a U.S. team and a Canadian group each outfitted about 20 blackpolls with geolocator backpacks.

She says: «Hookup apps reduce people to profile pics, and the act of going out to meet someone is negated by the app's handy geolocator.»

Scientific knowledge of birds and migration has grown significantly in the past decade through a range of advancements, from Cornell Lab of Ornithology's eBird and miniature geolocators to climate science and resiliency.

The University of Minnesota's Annie Bracey and her colleagues attached geolocators — small, harmless devices that record a bird's location over time based on day length — to 106 terns from breeding colonies in Manitoba, Ontario, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and New York.

A geolocator is «a remarkably stupid device,» Pimm says.

The geolocators recorded that the birds had experienced a 12 - hour day in December, offset by five hours from Florida.

But it doesn't work if the animals in question can hardly move under the weight of those geolocators: Until the last several years, our tracking devices were too heavy for songbirds.

Strapping a geolocator to a bunch of animals is usually a pretty good way to see what kind of migrations they pull off.

Two years ago, researchers got a chance to solve the mystery when dime - sized «geolocators» — devices that can simultaneously record daylight and time data, enabling researchers to track an animal's approximate route — became available.

Today the business exists in a world of SEO, CRM, algorithms and geolocators.