Hi, We are interested in seeing what wildlife live at our property that we don’t know about. We know we have swamp rats quite close to the house judging by their burrows, a variety of lizards and snakes. We have a variety of birds including Red Browed Finches, Eastern Spinebills , New Holland honey…

Hi @allabella007 and welcome to the forum! Just letting you know that I moved this to our General category , since the Forum Feedback category is reserved for “Discussion about the iNaturalist Forum, its organization, how it works, and how we can improve it.” Great question, and I look forward to s…

I don’t know if there are better options out there, but when I did some work out in the QLD bush we used Reconyx cameras like these https://www.reconyx.com/product/Outdoor_Series They have night vision, but a bit pricey.

[image] jdmore: I moved this to our General category should it be in Nature Talk , since it is’t directly related to iNat?

[image] alexis_orion: should it be in Nature Talk I may have made an unwarranted assumption that the equipment was being sought to capture observations for iNaturalist. @allabella007 can you clarify?

Helpful Link: https://emammal.si.edu/about/camera-trap-recommendation I also attended a talk about remote cameras for herp surveys. They found that timed cameras captured more activity since many herps don’t trigger the IR sensor. Lots of photos to go through. I’ve thought of using a webcam and …

I’d be interested to know if anyone on here has experience using camera traps or other camera systems to monitor open-cup nests of birds (as opposed to nests in boxes). The situation I want to use this method for is in the understory of tropical forest, to collect information on natural history (pat…

opened topic and moved your post

Try contacting birdcams@cornell.edu I found the email address in the about section of the Cornell Labs Bird Cam youtube channel… they might be able to put you in touch with appropriate technology options for your goals. https://www.youtube.com/c/CornellLabBirdCams/featured

Saw the ‘help me chose a timelapse’ and I thought, hey, yeah great idea I am looking at a new wildlife cam (‘hunting / game camera’) to set up on our land. The one we have is weird with rechargeable batteries (eneloops) and it’s IR is very spotty, quality not the best. What ones do you have that you…

The wildlife monitoring volunteers I advise have gradually moved to using mostly Bushnell cameras. They last better than the other cameras they’ve tried, have good image quality, and have fewer malfunctions. Also, they’ve moved to lithium batteries, which cost a few times as much each, but last many…

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should it be in Nature Talk, since it is’t directly related to iNat?

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