Satellite ‘backpacks’ help keep track of parrot migration in Mexico

Mongabay
Jan 16, 2025, 7:18 am104 pts
When James Sheppard set out to deploy tiny backpacks fitted with satellite transmitters to track endangered thick-billed parrots in 2019, doubts abounded. His colleagues were concerned it wasn’t going to work. A vendor he worked with refused to sell him the transmitters, worried it might be a futile attempt.…

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