Blog Topic: fawn

I never thought I’d do two fawn survival studies in my career.

We just completed a second fawn survival study, as well as a study of their predators. And we are going to tell you everything!

From the corn fields of South Dakota to the forests of Pennsylvania, fawn survival has been studied for over four decades.

If fawns could use the force I imagine they’d tell predators, “I am not the fawn you are looking for.”

10 weeks is a milestone for a deer. How many were able to celebrate?

Just as we ‘ran a race’ to catch as many fawns as possible during the fawning season, fawns have been in a race of their own.

Believe it or not, the end of the fawning season is here. So how did the crews fair in the race to catch them?

It has been about a week into the critical 3-week period of fawns dropping (does giving birth), but we didn’t seem to be finding any fawns. Until today.

The crew captured the first fawn of the year – and the project – on Saturday on Rothrock State Forest.

Almost 15 years ago PA conducted one of the largest fawn studies in North America. We are repeating that study but taking advantage of new technology.

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