Hoppy New Year!
Happy New Year everyone, from the Mountain Chicken Project team here in Montserrat!!!
We have had a very hectic couple of weeks here on the island as we are right in the thick of radio-tracking...
Radio-tracking, tree frogging, tree planting and more…
Hi all,
Emma here again, it’s been a busy few weeks! We’ve been out tracking the mountain chickens, exploring various bits of forests for surviving mountain chickens, carrying out chytrid surveys of tree...
Learning to radio-track
So given that we now have some new frogs complete with radio-transmitters running around the island, it’s now time for the radiotracking to begin. The core team Sarah-Louise, Blacka and Lloydie are all wonderfully...
Da mountain chickens are back on de island!
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...
Together we’re stronger!
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...
And now for the Mountain Chicken Project Leaflet!
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...
Mountain Chicken Poster
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...
Famous again!
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...
Frog loggers galore
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...