Low-cost automated call box system to conduct playback experiments for wildlife research and management.

ABSTRACT: Acoustic cues (e.g., vocalizations or 'calls' in wildlife) may effectively change social behavioral patterns in certain species. There are very few published papers on how to create a device at a low cost that can automatically reproduce acoustic cues to carry on wildlife playback experiments or management. We developed the Automated Call Box (ACB) based on an open-source Arduino-compatible microcontroller that attaches to a speaker system and costs less than the most common game caller used by researchers. The unit helps test the influence of social information on habitat choices and has other management applications. We field-tested the ACB to assess the effect of conspecific vocalizations cues on the habitat settlement and to increase the detectability of songbird species. We describe i

SUBMITTER: Cupiche-Herrera VJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10130348 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature