Mark-Recapture Wildlife Techniques
Capturing
Pitfall Trap the use of a pit in the ground into which an animal falls and cannot escape. The ecologist's pitfall trap consists basically of a glass, plastic or metal container, sunk into the soil so that the mouth is level with the soil surface. Many ground dwelling animals fall into the trap and are unable to escape.
Pitfall w/ Drift Fence
Seining
Electrofishing
Funnel Traps
Hair Snare The barbed wire snags their hair, and scientists collect and send it to the lab. In the root of each collected hair is enough DNA for geneticists to identify species, individuals and sex.
Sherman Traps
Nets
Snares
Marking
PIT tags
Toe - clipping Toe Clipping Scale Clipping
Shell Marking
Visible Tags
Radio collars/ transmitters