By okeon_admin
on Monday,November 20th, 2017
in Audio, Biodiversity, Research,
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At every OKEON site there is a small green box attached to a tree. These boxes are acoustic monitors, and they are recording natural sounds almost constantly. As part of the OKEON project, we use these natural sound recordings, or “soundscapes”, as a way of monitoring biodiversity. We collect more than 1 terabyte of audio […]
By okeon_admin
on Wednesday,February 22nd, 2017
in Ants, Collaboration, OPG, Research,
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Taiwan has been fighting fire ants over a decade. They must have excellent tactics to battle fire ants that we can adopt as a counter-plan to keep them away from Okinawa. To learn from their experience and knowledge, we visited the Red Imported Fire Ant Control Center and a fire ant control business. The staff was […]
By okeon_admin
on Friday,February 17th, 2017
in Audio, Biodiversity, Data, Research,
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February 14th is Valentine’s Day, and for birds living in Okinawa it’s the perfect time to start thinking about building a nest. In warm years like this one, the Tree Sparrow (スズメ) begins its breeding season around this time, followed by the Pacific Swallow (リュウキュウツバメ), the Japanese White-eye (メジロ), and the Japanese Tit (シジュウカラ). If […]
By okeon_admin
on Tuesday,February 14th, 2017
in Collaboration, Research,
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By okeon_admin
on Friday,January 6th, 2017
in Audio, Biodiversity, Research,
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On a small farm near the botanical garden in Okinawa City, a rooster sang its first song of 2017 – the “year of the rooster”. His was the first song of the dawn chorus, a daily event that arouses every type of bird sound on the island of Okinawa – from the sweet melody of […]
