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Santa Cruz Island fox gets radio collar.
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Santa Cruz Island fox gets radio collar.
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Across the Channel Islands, island foxes are being counted and given health checks. This island fox on Santa Cruz Island also received a refurbished radio-tracking collar funded by Friends of the Island Fox. See her as she is released.
For the next three years this radio collar will tell biologists that this island fox is up and moving around in its environment. It will also give off a mortality signal to alert biologists if something should happen to this individual island fox. Rapid response to mortalities enables a quick response to disease or threats to other island foxes.
What are the current threats to island foxes in 2019?
This island fox was captured and counted this week on Santa Cruz Island.
She received a health check and her radio-tracking collar was replaced with a newly refurbished collar. Her old collar will come off and be eligible for refurbishing.
Earlier this year, 20 radio collars from Santa Cruz Island were sent in for refurbishing and funded by FIF.
In just a few minutes this little fox was released back into the wild. Her refurbished radio collar has a battery that will last 2-3 years.
Her microchip enables biologists to identify her as a specific individual. If she is caught again this summer, the microchip reader will quickly identify her so that she can be released immediately without being handled.
Your donation of $220 would recycle her used radio collar to be placed on another island fox.
