How to Use radio collar in a Sentence
radio collar
noun-
Members of a field team track the wild wolves via radio collars.
— Washington Post, 18 June 2019 -
She was captured and fitted with a radio collar in the fall of 2022.
— Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2023 -
Lemon said the radio collar from the animal was returned to the park.
— Matthew Brown, Star Tribune, 23 Mar. 2021 -
The next day Sadie, a bobcat wearing a radio collar, was found dead in a wash.
— Kye Graves, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2022 -
Weiss believes the predators, none of which had radio collars, were gunned down.
— Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2018 -
The bears were both ear tagged and radio collared before their release.
— Nicole Blanchard, idahostatesman, 9 July 2017 -
The most recent ping from his radio collar showed him east of the Silver Lake Reservoir around 3 a.m.
— Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2022 -
The wolf was born near Mt. Hood and later fitted with a radio collar, which recorded points on his journey south.
— Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2021 -
He and his coauthors tracked pumas in the Santa Cruz Mountains via radio collars and determined when the big cats killed deer.
— Joshua Rapp Learn, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2017 -
It was fitted with a radio collar to track its movements in 2018, park spokesperson Morgan Warthin said.
— Matthew Brown, Star Tribune, 23 Mar. 2021 -
Each breeding female wears a radio collar and is monitored around the clock.
— The Economist, 20 Dec. 2017 -
Mariua wears a radio collar so researchers can track her and her babies, Karai and Porã.
— Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021 -
To unravel the many mysteries of sand cats, researchers tracked 22 of the felines that had been fitted with radio collars for four years.
— Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 May 2023 -
The mountain lion appears to be wearing a radio collar, and may have been spotted in the area since the confrontation at the Allen home, according to FOX 31.
— Travis Fedschun, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2018 -
Colorado Parks and Wildlife released images of the black animal wearing what appeared to be a radio collar around its neck.
— USA TODAY, 12 July 2019 -
Lights and noisemakers, some of them activated by radio collars on wolves, can frighten off the canids.
— Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 10 June 2018 -
The biologists were at the site to put radio collars on adult females, to check weights and body conditions and to monitor movements.
— Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News, 11 Sep. 2017 -
While the Lassen female is the most successful and long-lived wolf to enter California, OR-7 was the first, and thanks to his radio collar, the public was able to follow his travels.
— Morgan Heim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021 -
The young wolf stepped into the spotlight in 2017, after wildlife officials in southern Oregon trapped her and fitted her with a GPS radio collar.
— oregonlive, 8 Feb. 2020 -
Touch and see polar bear artifacts like a pelt and radio collar; make a polar bear craft to take home, and learn more about how climate change affects wild polar bears.
— Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2018 -
The following year, two Idaho wolves, one outfitted with a radio collar, swam across the Snake River and established Oregon’s first pack in the far northeast of the state.
— Morgan Heim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021 -
The wolf was the breeding male of the Cornucopia Pack and, along with his mate, had been fitted with a radio collar and tracked by state biologists who monitor the species' recovery.
— oregonlive, 5 Nov. 2020 -
The healthy grizzly was fitted with a radio collar and released into an undisclosed location.
— CBS News, 6 June 2022 -
For the New Mexico meadow jumping mouse, an endangered subspecies that weighs less than an ounce, that means using a radio collar that weighs about as much as three raindrops.
— Nala Rogers, Discover Magazine, 1 Oct. 2019 -
Each already had an identifying microchip inserted in its nose, a tattoo on the inner lip, tags in both ears and a radio collar fitted around the neck to track its movements by G.P.S.
— New York Times, 23 July 2021 -
Association officials said at the time that the fact that OR-93’s radio collar had quit emitting signals didn’t necessarily mean that the wolf wasn’t still prowling the area in search of a meal.
— Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2021 -
But the radio collar data show that the mice spend most of their time within 9 meters of the stream’s edge, so thinning operations could probably go much closer to the stream without harming the mice, said Chambers.
— Nala Rogers, Discover Magazine, 1 Oct. 2019 -
Officials were scrambling to find this female Mexican gray wolf that crossed the border, but her tracking radio collar was broken.
— Alex Devoid, azcentral, 13 May 2018 -
Last October, a gray wolf with a purple radio collar was spotted wandering in the mountains about 50 miles north of Downtown Los Angeles.
— Curbed, 12 Jan. 2022 -
She was trapped and given a radio collar before making her way into California in 2018.
— CBS News, 8 Feb. 2020
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