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05.08 - 20:55
How COVID-19 has transformed scientific fieldwork
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Elizabeth PennisiJust before dawn in the Jama-Coaque Ecological Reserve, a patch of Ecuador’s lush coastal forest, Abhimanyu Lele unfurls a tall net between two poles, then retreats out of sight.
A half-hour later, he and a local assistant reappear and smile: Their catch—10 birds that collided with the net and tumbled into a pocket along its length—was a good one.
The pair records species, measures and photographs the captives, and pricks wings for blood that can yield DNA before releasing the birds back into the forest.
The data, Lele hopes, will shed light on how Ecuadorean songbirds adapt to different altitudes and other conditions.The third-year graduate student at the University of Chicago (UC), who returns next week from a 10-week.
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