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July 11th, 2012

[Video] The Roche Écrite National Nature Reserve

The Roche Écrite National Nature Reserve covers nearly 3,600 hectares of Réunion Island.…
July 10th, 2012

The internet platform to follow the Agami Herons’ movements is up and running

Between April 21st and 23rd, a team of six people went by helicopter to the Marais de Kaw-Roura…
June 15th, 2012

Ornithological databases

Life+ Cap DOM databases of information and reproduction are now on-line. They allow free access…

Life+ CAP DOM equip five Agami Herons with Argos transmitters

Launched by GEPOG in 2011, the "Heron project" of Life+ Cap DOM has the aim of studying the movements of eight Agami Herons with Argos transmitters fitted to them. Three birds were fitted with the transmitters in 2012, and one of them was tracked between April and November, notably during a movement extending across French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana and Venezuela!

In 2013, five new individuals were fitted with transmitters at the end of April, in the Marais de Kaw-Roura Nature Reserve, and we eagerly await news of their movements.

Agami Heron in flight, fitted with its transmitter © Vincent Rufray 2013
Agami Heron in flight, fitted with its transmitter © Vincent Rufray 2013

Anna Stier
Project leader
LIFE+ Cap DOM

Keywords : French Guiana, Kaw Marshes, Agami heron, Argos tracking

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