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A Day Tracking
Wildlife telemetry is a research method used to gather detailed information including wildlife habitat usage, home range size, mortality survivorship, etc. Using an antenna and receiver we are able...
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Road Mortality
Part of this years field study took place on two of Ontario’s highways. A road mortality survey was conducted to determine areas of increased turtle fatalities. The information gathered throughout the...
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New Field Study: Tracking Released Babies
New this year, we have started a field study to track and monitor the movement, growth, and survival of a group of young Blanding’s turtles (a Threatened species) that were successfully hatched at...
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Tracking 2012
This year has been an exciting time for the staff and volunteers at KTTC having had the opportunity get into the field and track some of our very own turtles. Though this year’s sample size of 10...
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KTTC Kicks off the 2013 Field Season
2013 promises to be a very exciting year for field work at Kawartha Turtle Trauma Centre. With huge gratitude to the TD Friends of the Environment Fund (TD FEF), our field work has been expanded this...
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The First Releases of the Season!
The weather cooperated and we were off into the swamp to release the first clutch of headstarted Blanding’s turtles released this year. The transmitter weighs only 4 grams, and is attached simply with...
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The Field Experience
Field season has been in full swing for over a month now. I have been tracking Blanding’s turtles from sunrise until sunset, driving from northwest to northeast, canoeing through lakes, marshes,...
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The Art of Tracking Turtles
The art of tracking turtles…let me set the mood. I have just canoed to a sweet gale swamp thicket wetland, which was where I last saw the turtle. I am standing in my canoe, antennae in hand. I begin...
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The 2014 Field Season Begins!
It has been a while since our last post about the little Blanding’s turtles that we search through the wetlands to find each week. We had an incredible season last year- every turtle that was raised at...
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Awakening from Winter- Headstart Turtle Survival
Spring has begun and we are back ‘turtling’. It’s good to be back!! Springtime is busy…checking on overwintering turtles, looking for new wild juveniles and doing population surveys. My first...
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A New Wild Juvenile Blanding’s!
Turtle season is in full swing and May is slipping away. The primary goal for this spring season was to find juvenile Blanding’s turtles. It has been a successful season so far, with the findings of...
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Blanding’s turtles travel quite a bit and love every type of wetland. Some wetlands are a bit easier to traverse than others. When I am out tracking, every moment brings out a new adventure, and...
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Tracking Turtles – Dylan Cook, May 2016
By: Dylan Cook May 16, 2016 This past week the OTCC started back up with their turtle monitoring; studying the behaviour, habitat use and survival of juvenile Blanding’s turtles in eastern Ontario....
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Tracking Turtle 2016 – Ian McBain
As a boom of thunder rolled across the lake, the first day of the work week had come to an end. I had never yearned for a heavy rain so intensely before in my life as I had when I saw the first signs...
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Tracking Those Smiling Faces – Megan Miller 2016
June 30, 2016 By: Megan Miller – Lead Field Technician OTCC So I landed my summer dream job this year. For the past month I’ve been tracking Blandings turtles for a headstart program with the Ontario...
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