Preening Behavior of Adult Gyrfalcons Tagged with Backpack Transmitters

• Published in: Journal of Raptor Research
• Main Authors: Booms, Travis L., Schempf, Philip F., Fuller, Mark R.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: ScholarWorks 2011
• Subjects: Gyrfalcon; Falco rusticolus; behavior; radiotelemetry; radio transmitters; Animal Sciences; Fuller; McIntyre; Accipiter gentilis; Falco peregrinus; gyrfalcon
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/rrc_facpubs/8; https://doi.org/10.3356/JRR-10-115.1

Radio transmitters provide data that enhance understanding of raptor biology (Walls and Kenward 2007) and are now used to answer a multitude of research questions (Meyburg and Fuller 2007). However, transmitters affect the birds that carry them (Barron et al. 2010), and it is important to document a...