Final goodbye word from the volunteers!
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...
Save the Frogs Day
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...
You know you are a mountain chicken volunteer in Montserrat when…
...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...
Radio-Tracking must go on!
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...
The mysterious disappearing of 120, part II
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...
The Mysterious Disappearing of 120
Strange things seem to hapen in the forest after we leave. Not everything that happens in the frog community is understood by mankind, not even if you're part of the Mountain Chicken Team...
120 and...
The Crusaders!
The crusaders
The last couple of weeks have run pretty smoothly in terms of the radio tracking, most of the frogs are staying close to ghaut and their last locations. There are only a couple...
Royal Visit to Montserrat
A bit of local news. As part of their celebrations of Her Majesty The Queen's Diamond Jubilee the Earl and Countess of Essex visited Montserrat today. The schedule consisted of a visit to the...
Amazing Fairy Walk survivor!
One evening Blacka and I were heading off to one of the original survey sites looking for surviving mountain chickens. Fairy Walk is one of the sites that has been regularly monitored for mountain...
It’s Swab Time
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Catching the mountain chickens to swab them is not as easy as it sounds; finding them for one, even...