How safe is mist netting? First large-scale study into bird capture technique evaluates the risks
Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 04:00
in Biology & Nature
Capturing birds using mist nets to study behaviour, movement or the demographics of a species is one of the most common research techniques in ornithology, yet until now there have been no large scale studies into the risks mist nets pose to birds. Writing in the British Ecological Society's Methods in Ecology and Evolution researchers from California used a dataset of over 345,000 records to evaluate the risks of mist netting.