Today was a day of following ghaut (excuse the pun) feelings. We were exploring new areas of our release site ghaut to try and find the frog utopia we’re sure must exist, to explain why we can’t find certain frogs on our normal searches in the main release site area.
The release sites are all positioned on the main Sweetwater...
Pond construction - update 2
Having scrubbed the pond liners clean the next stage was to actually fix them to the wooden frames. This was a big job and it took us a little time to work out the best method of actually doing it. We did one prototype pond and decided that simply attaching the liner to the frame...
I may be a little fella, but my heart is as big as Texas! If you've been to Montserrat, you know there is a concert going on in the trees from dusk till dawn. The majority of the choir members are tree frogs: Eleutherodactylus johnstonei.
One reason for the tree frogs' persisting abundance is their ability to withstand the chytrid...
A little over a month ago, frog 120 suddenly fell off the grid together with his companion 110. We searched the whole of Sweetwater up and down, day and night, but the frogs seemed as swept off the face of the earth. The only sign of them ever being present was the steady beeping from 120's frequency out the...
The past four months have been epic beyond compare for the team in Montserrat: laughing, crying and sweating their way from January to May.
January saw the captive-bred critically endangered mountain chicken return to Montserrat. The release of these precious animals happened over several days, and with great success. After the release the team spent six nights a week, every...
After a few weeks trying to organize the event, it finally happened!!! Last Saturday the Mountain Chicken team went to the forest. That is no news, I know. But this time there was a different reason to go: a fantastic, tasty and delicious meal…
The first step was to choose the location to set up the kitchen (oh, yes, everything...
...you think the streetlights of Lookout look like the GPS map of search points
...you think the tree frogs outside the bedroom window sound like a radio transmittor signal.
...feel like you forgot to put on pants if you leave the house after 6.30 and don't have a head torch.
...take lounging on the beach on a wednesday for granted, but feel...
Today was the first day of the Mountain Chicken Recovery Plan Workshop run by the Darwin Initiative Mountain Chicken Project in Montserrat. The project is now in the third and final year and we committed as part of the project proposal to developing a long-term restoration strategy for the species based on pulling together the results of everything we...