Great news! 24 happy, healthy mountain chickens finally arrived into Montserrat after their long journey from Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust herpetology house in Jersey. As a volunteer on the project I, Emma Downie, will be spending 3 months monitoring these frogs and so I accompanied the mountain chickens from London through Antigua. We flew into the Montserrat airport in...
A collaborative effort to save the mountain chicken frog has been in effect between the islands of Montserrat and Dominica for many years, but our partnership was recently strengthened when Montserratian primary field assistant ‘Blacka’ came to share his fieldwork skills and experience with the team in Dominica.
We decided to concentrate our search efforts in places that were previously...
To compliment our poster and to help spread the word even further the project has produced this information leaflet about mountain chickens and the effects of chytrid.
Mountain Chicken Project Leaflet (click here to download a printable version).
MC leaflet Web version (click here for a readable version).
This leaflet is double sided with tons of information about chytrid, the effects of...
For those of you who are not in Montserrat to roam the streets to view our handsome Mountain Chicken Poster then here it is! Mountain Chicken Project Poster (click the link to download)
The poster has been produced by the Mountain Chicken Project and will soon pepper Montserrat's public places in an effort to enhance the profile of the species...
This week the Mountain Chicken Project team played host to a film crew and were successful in getting our star players to shine. Stewart McPherson (Director) and Simon Vacher (Cameraman and Editor) have taken on a filming expedition project where they plan to cover the wildlife and human stories of existing conservation projects on each of our own UK...
It is now that time of year again when the male mountain chickens are wooing their females with that wonderfully distinctive whooping sound. A sound that once was so common and almost deafening on Montserrat and now sadly it is a rarity. However, hope remains whilst we still here frogs call and there are some surviving males that are...
It’s the end of the 3 months radio-tracking and I can’t believe the time has gone by so fast and its time to head home!
The last two weeks have been really hectic and so seemed to pass much faster. We supported ‘Save the Frogs Day’ an event organised for an American charity to help raise awareness of frogs, also...
The Mountain Chicken Team prepare to take part in the international 'Save the Frogs Day' organised by a US charity called 'Save the Frogs'. Events are taking place in 30 different countries around the world in an effort to raise awareness of the fight that many amphibian species are facing.
Here in Montserrat the volunteers have been busy with their...
...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...
We are now into our third and last month of radio-tracking so it comes to no surprise that we are starting to see failed transmitters. Batteries are starting to run out and frogs are free to hop off into the sunset. Of course the team will continue for the next month to radio-track those that are still beeping and...