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| A monarch tagged with an indicator sticker |
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Sharp-shinned Hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk, by Steve Thornhill
Monday, September 16, 2013
Monarch Biologist
The Monarch biologist this year is Rea, a recent graduate of the UVA environmental science program. She started her research today, which involves counting monarchs at their roost location and catching them to place indicator stickers on them. The data collected will provide information on survival rates of migrating Monarchs.
~Katie
