I can't get the picture that was with this to post, but it showed Lizzi with a mottled duck with the gps backpack tracker. I guess it already is and can be done.
Congrats on the band.....
UWF Graduate Research Scholarship - Award Announcement!
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We are proud to award the 1st United Waterfowlers of Florida Graduate Research Scholarship to Lizzi Bonczek. A Ph.D. student at LSU, Lizzi will be investigating how environmental characteristics affect the breeding propensity, nest success, and re-nesting effort of mottled ducks in coastal Louisiana. The habitat that mottled ducks use for nesting is often not conducive to the traditional nest searching techniques used on the prairies, so Lizzi will be capturing female mottled ducks during wing molt and will follow their subsequent movements using backpack GPS-GSM transmitters. She will let the ducks lead her to the nests, and will then monitor nests to determine whether they hatch or fail and will collect local habitat characteristics to evaluate factors that influence nest fate. Her research will provide important information about mottled duck breeding that will help with mottled duck management in the future.
Lizzi is a converted vegetarian-now-waterfowler who took her first duck at T.M. Goodwin WMA and now enjoys hunting in Louisiana with friends and her Labrador puppy, Millie. She hopes to research waterfowl at the state or federal level, upon completion of her doctorate degree.
United Waterfowlers of Florida values the impact that research and education have on the continued enjoyment of our waterfowling heritage and natural resources. The scholarship was established to assist students to further our knowledge of Florida’s wetlands and the waterfowl that use them. It also honors the memory of the late UW-F member, Bob “Bomber” O’Connell, who had a great love for waterfowl hunting in Florida.
We are excited to provide Lizzi with funds to improve her data collection and look forward to seeing her results in a few years. We are grateful to the members who donated to a dedicated fund for this scholarship. If you would like to contribute to next year’s scholarship, please visit
http://unitedwaterfowlersfl.org/grad...h-scholarship/