Tag recovery list updated

16 May 2022 | Author: Jim Lovett

More than 900 Monarch Watch tags were recovered from monarch overwintering sites in central Mexico during the 2021 tagging season. All of the tags have been examined and the "Tag recoveries from central Mexico" list has been updated. By default, ...

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Tagging wild and reared monarchs: Best practices

9 July 2019 | Author: Monarch Watch

Greetings taggers and welcome to the 2019 monarch tagging season. This year marks Monarch Watch’s 28th season! Over the years, thousands of taggers have contributed to our tagging database. It is an enormous record and a veritable gold mine of ...

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A Message to all Taggers

3 August 2018 | Author: Chip Taylor

Hear ye! Hear ye! Taggers take note! What you have contributed to monarch science over the years has been incredible! Collectively, you have tagged well over 1.5 million monarchs in the last 26 years, from the front range in Colorado ...

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Tagging results and the monarch decline

2 November 2016 | Author: Jim Lovett

Is the monarch decline due to an increase in mortality during the fall migration? Chip Taylor, Jim Lovett and Ann Ryan Monarch Watch, Kansas Biological Survey, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Introduction The authors of three recent papers dealing with the decline in monarch numbers ...

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Monarch Population Status

12 June 2012 | Author: Jim Lovett

What a spring it's been - the warmest in 117 years of record keeping and the warmest 12 months ever recorded in the United States. In response to the warm conditions the plants and insects have made early appearances. Some ...

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Tag Recovery Database Updated

30 May 2012 | Author: Jim Lovett

The Monarch Watch Tag Recovery Database (monarchwatch.org/recoveries) has been updated - more than 16, 000 records now, in a searchable format. Check to see if any of your tags were recovered in Mexico this year :-) Tip: to generate a ...

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Monarch Tagging Kits for 2011

31 July 2011 | Author: Jim Lovett

Our tags for the 2011 Monarch Watch Tagging Kits arrived recently and we sent out the first batch of kits on Friday. Those of you that ordered between January 1st and June 30th of this year should receive your tags ...

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Monarch Watch Tag Recovery Database Updated

22 April 2011 | Author: Jim Lovett

Nearly 4, 000 records have been added to the Monarch Watch Tag Recovery database, bringing the total number of records to more than 15, 000 for the 1992-2010 monarch tagging seasons. Approximately 2500 records represent monarchs observed/recovered in the ...

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2009 Season Tag Recoveries

21 May 2010 | Author: Jim Lovett

We have been receiving lots of questions about when the 2009 season tag recoveries will be posted. We do not have a large number of them at this point due to the fact that we did not make our annual ...

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Monarch Tagging Kits for 2009

24 July 2009 | Author: Jim Lovett

Our tags for the 2009 Monarch Watch Tagging Kits arrived this week and we will begin assembling the kits this weekend! Those of you that ordered between January 1st and June 30th of this year should receive your tags within ...

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