Use of Fluorescent Powder for Tracking American Woodcock Broods

Fluorescent powder has been used to track small mammals and has yielded accurate information on the location of animals, enabling researchers to trace the exact movements of individuals on trails as long as 900 m. However, few researchers have used fluorescent powder on birds. There was no published literature on the use of this technique with birds of any type when this study was begun. We report results of the use of fluorescent powder to describe the movements and brood coherence of American Woodcock chicks.