The #coyote #Canis #latrans is widespread in North America and expands also into human #cities. It engages in opportunistic #hunting #cooperations with the American #badger #Taxidea #taxus, allowing both to capture more #groundsquirrels #Urocitellus #armatus. D. Thornton et al. (2018) used #cameratraps to document these interactions.
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https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2017-0234

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RE: https://toot.community/@ProfundumPhoto/115830809826533982

#wildlife #WildlifePhotography #photography #birds #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfFediverse #CameraTrap #CameraTraps #CameraTrapping

The Best Trail Camera Photos of 2025 https://petapixel.com/2025/12/30/the-best-trail-camera-photos-of-2025-remote-camera/ #remotecamera #cameratraps #trailcamera #Editorial #Features #wildlife #nature

Camera trap that has an array of cameras to systematically cover a large land area. This should increase the number of animals photographed.
#wildlifecameras #wildlife #cameratraps #animalsurvey #ecology #wildlifephotography #photography #cameraarrays #biodiversity

Camera trap for microscopic aquatic life. Is it possible? How?
#microscopy #micrography #pondlife #aquaticlife #microscopicorganisms #microscopiclife #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #cameratraps #wildlifetraps #diatoms #ciliates #amoebas #algae

How do I make a camera trap for insects? All existing commercial off the shelf camera traps seem to be designed for warm blooded animals only.
#entomology #zoology #ecology #cameratraps #wildlife #wildlifetraps #pirsensors #insects #insectphotography #photography #wildlifephotography

After literally months of technical glitches and uncooperative wildlife, I have finally landed a not-too-awful shot of an eastern pygmy possum (Cercartetus nanus) on the camera-trap, captured here in the hollow inside an old burnt-out gum tree - a difficult setting to light.

#wildlife #WildlifePhotography #CameraTraps #CameraTrapping #photography

#Scientists share chilling #footage of #SiberianTigers hunting #bears https://zorz.it/OIFeG | #KateGaribaldi #nature #TrailCamera #wildlife #CameraTraps #SiberianTigerConservation

Low Contribution Of Livestock In The Grey Wolf Diet In The Area With High Availability Of Free-Ranging Cattle And Horses
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-025-01926-3 <-- shared paper
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[not my usual fare (word play very much intended), but a fascinating and data-driven study; the study is not definitive, of course, but it adds to the scientific knowledge base, including with the socio-economic considerations…]
#wolf #predator #apexpredators #livestock #predation #depredation #death #cow #horse #greywolf #casestudy #Poland #cattle #horses #ecosystems #socioeconomic #forests #humanimpacts #conflicts #WartaRiver #genetic #fingerprinting #tracking #GIS #spatial #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #cameratraps #scat #fecal #feces #wildanimals #ungulates #deer #mammals #rabbits #domesticanimals #foodsource #cost #economics #dogs #population #impacts #conflict #landscape #wildprey #prey #trophiccascade #herds #vegetation

Google Releases AI Model to Identify Wildlife Species in Trail Camera Images https://petapixel.com/2025/03/14/google-release-ai-model-speciesnet-to-identify-wildlife-species-in-trail-camera-images/ #trailcameras #cameratraps #trailcamera #Technology #wildlife #aimodel #animals #animal #News

And here’s video off the trail-camera I had monitoring the camera-trap set-up, showing the pygmy possum shooting past and triggering the camera.

#wildlife #WildlifePhotography #CameraTraps #CameraTrapping #TrailCamera

Two photos off the camera-trap that I brought in from the forest yesterday, showing an Eastern pygmy possum (Cercartetus nanus). Unfortunately in the shot where it’s in focus, the animal has its back to us, and where it’s looking at the camera, it’s just beyond the zone of sharp focus.

If you can’t cope with things going wrong, you’re not suited to camera-trapping…

#wildlife #WildlifePhotography #CameraTraps #CameraTrapping

Just in case you thought I was exaggerating about the spider webs!

This is the wireless motion-detector that triggers the camera.

#CameraTraps #CameraTrapping

After something like 15 months of near-continuous service in the field in my camera-trap, my poor old DSLR has finally failed, and I’ve grabbed the opportunity to bring all of the electronic equipment back in to clean off the spider webs and dirt, and see if I can get everything back into working order.

Here are some recent photos off the camera-trap - a native bushrat (Rattus fuscipes) and a long-nosed bandicoot (Perameles nasuta).

#wildlife #WildlifePhotography #CameraTraps #photography

Vertebrate Diversity In Stormwater Sewer Systems Of Alachua County, Florida
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https://www.eaglehill.us/URNAonline2/access-pages/075-Ivory-accesspage.shtml <-- shared paper
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[not NYC, but Florida, a fascinating Friday afternoon read for me…]
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#urbanization #urbanisation #animal #Vertebrate #Diversity #StormwaterSewerSystems #AlachuaCounty #Florida #humaninpacts #urbananimals #subterranean #tunnels #monitoring #cameratraps #anthropogenic #mapping #spatial #spatialanalysis #amphibians #reptiles #birds #mammals #raccoons #alligator #urban #urbanplanning

New data paper in Ecology reporting >10000 #frugivory interaction events between 59 vertebrate species (46 birds, 13 mammals) and 339 plant individuals from 13 different plant species in Doñana, Southern Spain, obtained with #CameraTraps:

https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4424 #ecopubs

Camera Trap Captures Rare Meeting Between Wombat and Echidna https://petapixel.com/2024/09/11/camera-trap-captures-rare-meeting-between-wombat-and-echidna/ #conservation #trailcameras #cameratraps #Spotlight #nature #News

And the last of the three “successful” images off the camera-trap over the last fortnight - a brown antechinus (Antechinus stuartii).

Captured on Sydney’s northern fringes.

Again, it’s right at the edge of the field of view, so more cluttered with foliage than I was planning.

#wildlife #WildlifePhotography #CameraTrap #CameraTraps #CameraTrapping

Here’s one of the three successful images out of the 290+ captured on the camera-trap in the last fortnight - a native Australian bushrat (Rattus fuscipes).

It’s right at the far edge of the image - the location I was hoping to capture the wildlife was a lot less cluttered with foliage.

#wildlife #WildlifePhotography #CameraTrap #CameraTraps #CameraTrapping #photography

Damn. Looks like I might have spent several months of my life earlier this year using a camera-trap to photograph bloody introduced rats.

I now think this is an introduced black or brown rat (Rattus rattus or Rattus norvegicus) on the left, and a native Australian bushrat on the right (Rattus fuscipes).

#wildlife #WildlifePhotography #CameraTrap #CameraTraps #CameraTrapping