>From the ARRL website:
Help Scientists Save the Shrikes (Dec 18, 2007) -- If you live in an eastern
state and can tune away from the ham bands for a few minutes a day, you could
help scientists study an endangered bird species. Every year, Eastern
Loggerhead Shrikes leave their nesting grounds in Ontario, Canada, but fewer
and fewer are returning in the spring. Researchers at the University of Guelph
in Ontario have placed radio tags on 16 young shrikes. They are asking for
assistance from hams and monitoring enthusiasts to find out if the tagged birds
end up in Florida as expected, or somewhere else. You can help by tuning in
regularly to the tag frequencies, which are between 172-173 MHz. The primary
target area is Tennessee, North Carolina and states to the south. The complete
frequency list is published here, along with articles to help you distinguish
the pulsed tags from other signals you may hear there. Please listen now,
because these Loggerhead Shrike transmitters are slowly decreasing
in power output and will begin to fail in mid-February 2008. -- Joe Moell,
K0OV, ARRL ARDF
http://www.arrl.org/?artid=7906
The frequency list website is here:
http://members.aol.com/homingin/
It is not clear if these birds will QSL listener verification reports. :-)
UnReliable sources say that if you promise to let out a blood curdling yell
if you see or hear one of these birds, you can get a "I'll shriek for a shrike"
T-shirt.
And if you promise to take one to a movie, you can also get a "Take A Shrike
to Shrek" T-shirt.
I better quit now, before I get called out for Shrike Three.
73 and Merry Christmas,
Curt W4CP
Curt Phillips, CEM CMVP
W4CP ex-KD4YU; WB4LHI
ARRL Life; QCWA; SKCC; NASWA
Tar Heel Scanner/SWL Group
WTSB AM1090- Sat. Mornings 6AM-9AM
Raleigh, NC
w4cp<at>arrl.net
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