case studies

Real projects, real questions: how research and conservation teams turn their tracking and sensor data into results with Firetail.

Research

How nesting wild turkeys move and share space

Eastern wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris)

Ten years of GPS tracks from 643 female wild turkeys show that how far a hen roams while laying her eggs, and how many other hens share her area, is linked to whether her nest hatches.

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Conservation

Where a highly threatened fruit bat finds its food

Livingstone's fruit bat (Pteropus livingstonii)

Only about 1,500 Livingstone's fruit bats remain, on two islands of the Comoros. GPS and acceleration data, annotated with FireSOM, revealed where they feed, and which landscapes conservation has to protect.

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Research

What a king vulture's camera reveals

King vulture (Sarcoramphus papa)

Two king vultures in Costa Rica carried a camera on their backs. More than two hours of footage showed how well behaviour can be read from acceleration data alone, and where it still fails.

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Conservation

Vultures as death detectors

African white-backed vulture (Gyps africanus)

Vultures find carcasses across vast landscapes. In Etosha National Park, GPS-accelerometer tags and machine learning turned 34 white-backed vultures into a monitoring system that detects where animals have died.

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why teams choose Firetail

“Firetail provides me with exactly the sort of data analysis tools I need. It is a pioneer in dealing with modern GPS datasets”
Dr. Isabella Mandl, Universität Wien, Austria

“a whole new level of behavioral research [...] The scientist gets up close to the studied animal again”
Dr. Jörg Melzheimer, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin

“I'm impressed at how fast Firetail is, well done!”
Simon Chamaillé-Jammes, CNRS, France

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