Tropical canopy netting and shooting lines over tall trees
Journal of Field Ornithology
1991
Journal Article
62
4
454-463
Parque Nacional del Manu Animals Chordates Vertebrates Birds canopy climbing techniques field techniques trapping Madre de Dios Bibliography
Using improvements and extensions of the aerial mist netting method of Greenlaw and Swinebroad (1967) and a new, inexpensive method of line shooting, 150 canopy birds of 46 species were caught and macaw movements were observed from ropes in emergent trees in the Manu National Park of Amazonian Peru. Here the modified netting methods and the new line-shooting method, which allows easy access to the tops of the tallest trees in the Amazon, are described. Also included are suggestions for ascending and hanging from ropes in the rainforest canopy.