Students are doing a great job tracking the birds, and our 3 remaining pheasants are still holding strong to Lancaster Central Park. Refer below for the latest locations.
Monthly Archives: October 2015
Tracking Pheasants
Below is a video of Millersville Environmental Biology Student Kira Klassen tracking one of the collared ring-necked pheasants. She got a little closer than expected and the bird flushed. Our remaining birds are looking healthy and doing well.
Rodent Trapping & Research at Millersville
Millersville Environmental Biology student Kelsey Lopez has been conducting his research on rodent trapping success rates on the Millersville Campus.
Click below for a video on how rodents are captured and processed for Kelsey’s research project.
Update on The Millersville University Pheasant Project
We are down to 3 birds. One bird suffered a mammalian predation event, another bird slipped its collar and another bird is currently missing in action. We will begin an intensive search for this bird soon. The other 3 birds are doing well and loving the nice cover at Lancaster Central Park’s City View Road (see below). The Millersville Field Ecology Students are doing a great job tracking the birds thanks in large part to the efforts of Environmental Biology student Anthony Kessler, who is leading and organizing this effort. The birds are really starting to use more of the park (locations of the birds are shown below as red dots).