Monitoring Southwestern Alberta's Birds and Mammals

Monitoring Southwestern Alberta's Birds and Mammals

This program is designed to collect data on mammal and bird species by using wildlife cameras and autonomous recording units (ARUs). The plan is to deploy these cameras and ARUs in two separate landscape areas within the Crownest Pass region of Alberta. One area has been picked to target parks and natural areas, while the other has been chosen to represent residential development, agriculture and other human-dominated landscapes. This will allow us to understand the preferred habitats of birds and mammals in the region, and how they might be interacting with these environments.