Capturing birds using mist nets in order to study behavior, movement or the demographics of a species is one of the most common research techniques in ornithology; yet until now there have been no ...

Papers presented at a workshop held in Oct. 1993 at the Marconi Conference Center, Tomales Bay, Calif. The papers were updated during 2001-2003. Use of mist nets as a tool for bird population ...

Corey Tarwater (third, from left), an associate professor in the University of Wyoming Department of Zoology and Physiology, shows members of the bat research team from the Smithsonian Tropical ...

There’s a feeling of unfolding fairy tale in the predawn air. Hannah Suthers, 74, is flying up the path into the young woods, carrying canvas bags, trying to beat the birds. She isn’t striding, her ...

Back in the 1980s I was a bird-banding assistant in southwest Ohio at a county nature preserve. I would remove songbirds from mist nets and place them in paper sacks ...