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Bird trapping techniques to capture wild birds include a wide range of techniques that have their origins in the hunting of birds for food. While hunting for food does not require birds to be caught alive, some trapping techniques capture birds without harming them and are of use in ornithology research.
In the past, animals could be collected from the wild to add to captive collections and this is how people typically used to enter the hobby; [9] this changed in 1981 when all species of native gecko were granted legal protection, [9] with the exception of two species of Hoplodactylus, the forest gecko (Hoplodactylus ganulatus) and common gecko ...
However, in 2010 a Duvaucel's gecko was caught in a trap near Maungatautari, indicating that there are remnant populations on the New Zealand mainland. [3] In 2023, the population of Hoplodactylus from islands in Cook Strait was determined to be a distinct species, Hoplodactylus tohu , which is believed to have formerly had a range across the ...
A Mediterranean house gecko in ambush on a nest of a sphecid wasp Sceliphron spirifex. Mediterranean house geckos are nocturnal. [21] They emit a distinctive, high-pitched call somewhat like a squeak or the chirp of a bird, possibly expressing a territorial message. Because of this aggressive behavior, juveniles avoid most interaction with ...
Chondrodactylus angulifer, also known as the common giant ground gecko, the South African ground gecko, or the Namib sand gecko, is a species of gecko, ...
Paroedura guibeae Dixon & Kroll, 1974 – Guibé's ground gecko; Paroedura homalorhina (Angel, 1936) – northern Madagascar ground gecko; Paroedura hordiesi Glaw, Rösler, Ineich, Gehring, J. Köhler & Vences, 2014 – Hordies's ground gecko; Paroedura ibityensis Rösler & Krüger, 1998 – Ibity ground gecko; Paroedura karstophila Nussbaum ...
Generalist predators can have a substantial effect on ground-nesting birds such as the European golden plover, Pluvialis apricaria: in Norway 78.2% of nests of this species were preyed on. Experimental removal of two nest and egg predators, red fox and carrion crow , raised the percentage of pairs that fledged young from c. 18% to c. 75%.
The common house gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus) is a gecko native to South and Southeast Asia as well as Near Oceania. It is also known as the Asian house gecko, Pacific house gecko, wall gecko, house lizard, tiktiki, chipkali [3] or moon lizard. These geckos are nocturnal; hiding during the day and foraging for insects at night.