Jennifer A. Smith, Ph.D

Collaborators from Southern Illinois University collect data to evaluate productivity of ephemeral wetlands in northern Florida

A coyote trapped on a trail camera during a study to evaluate the effects of a wind farm on mammalian predators in Nebraska

Taking the weight of a Great Tit to evaluate body condition during a study of supplementary feeding effects on woodland songbirds in the UK

Property enrolled in the Safe Harbor Program - a program designed to aid conservation of Red-cockaded Woodpeckers on private lands

Tracking Greater Prairie-Chickens using aerial telemetry across the Nebraska Sandhills

Banding Red Knots on Hog Island, Virginia with Dr Jim Fraser as part of efforts to monitor Red Knot populations

The helicopter used to survey Red-cockaded Woodpecker habitat in NE-NC

Technician Candice Doyle checking trail cameras used to monitor predators around a wind energy facility in the Nebraska Sandhills

Red-cockaded Woodpecker habitat in NE-NC; atypical of the typical habitat used by RCWs!

Buck Island Ranch, Florida

Technician Micah Scholer handles a Turkey Vulture in south-central Florida

Team from the Fraser lab at Virginia Tech band Red Knots to aid population monitoring efforts

Jaan Kolts and Alicia Jackson of JCA use a 'peeper' to monitor Red-cockaded Woodpecker breeding attempts in North Carolina

A Greater Prairie-Chicken is fitted with a satellite-tag so that researchers can track their movements

Fox Squirrel on a Safe Harbor property in NE-NC

Northern Crested Caracaras feed at a carcass in south-central Florida

Fitting a Northern Crested Caracara with a PTT-tag so that researchers can monitor their spatial ecology

Small aircraft fitted with aerial telemetry equipment used to track Greater Prairie-Chickens across the Nebraska Sandhills

Jen Smith, Jim Fraser and Joan Morrison with a Northern Crested Caracara in south-central Florida.

During helicopter surveys the views are beautiful! Here we look into swampy forests inhabited by RCWs!

Tagging juvenile Snail Kites in Florida so that researchers can monitor their spatial ecology

Assessing Northern Crested Caracara habitat from the air over Buck Island Ranch & MacArthur Agro-Ecology Research Station, Florida

Red Knot fitted with a unique combination of bird bands to aid in individual identification