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A sky burial site in Yerpa Valley, Tibet Drigung Monastery, Tibetan monastery famous for performing sky burials. Sky burial (Tibetan: བྱ་གཏོར་, Wylie: bya gtor, lit. "bird-scattered" [1]) is a funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose while exposed to the elements or to be eaten by scavenging animals, especially carrion birds like vultures ...
Crows in a trap on a farm in England. Almost all traps involve the use of food, water or decoys to attract birds within range and a mechanism for restricting the movement, injuring or killing birds that come into range. Food, water, decoy birds and call playback may be used to bring birds to the trap. The use of chemical sprays on crops or food ...
A British spring trap set in a wire tunnel for small mammals. Live trap with shade cloth to protect animal from heat. Cage traps are designed to catch live animals in a cage. They are usually baited, sometimes with food bait and sometimes with a live "lure" animal. Common baits include cat food and fish.
However, birds are among most sensitive animals to elevated selenium exposure. Due to a steady loss of wetland habitat in California, [16] the Kesterson Reservoir was an important stopping point for migratory birds. For this reason, the high levels of selenium in the reservoir had a substantial effect on bird populations.
The Cosumnes River Preserve is a nature preserve of over 51,000 acres (210 km 2) located 20 miles (30 km) south of Sacramento, in the US state of California.The preserve protects a Central Valley remnant that once contained one of the largest expanses of oak tree savanna, riparian oak forest and wetland habitat in North America. [1]
A pitfall trap is a trapping pit for small animals, such as insects, amphibians and reptiles. Pitfall traps are a sampling technique, mainly used for ecology studies and ecologic pest control. [1] Animals that enter a pitfall trap are unable to escape. This is a form of passive collection, as opposed to active collection where the collector ...
Bait (luring substance) Bait is any appetizing substance (e.g. food) used to attract prey when hunting or fishing, most commonly in the form of trapping (e.g. mousetrap and bird trap), ambushing (e.g. from a hunting blind) and angling. Baiting is a ubiquitous practice in both recreational (especially angling) and commercial fishing, but the use ...
Larsen trap. A Larsen trap is a device used to live trap wildbirds. It is used in avian predator control programs, [1] and in scientific research. [2] It is essentially a cage with two (or more) compartments. A previously caught magpie or crow is kept in the decoy compartment, and this attracts territory holders who see the decoy as an intruder.