FIELD GUIDE Monitoring Tigers, Co-Predators, Prey and their Habitats

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17 Each transect should be walked by 1-2 persons during the early morning hours (6:30 am to 8:30 am). Preferably one of the persons walking should be a good field person who is able to spot wildlife. A record should be kept of all herbivores (and other listed wildlife) seen during the walk in the prescribed format (see data sheet). For each animal sighting the following needs to be recorded: 1) sighting no, 2) time of the sighting, 3) species (e.g. sambar, chital, wild pig etc.), 4) group size – number of animals of the same species in the group sighted, it is important to try to count the number of animals in the group as accurately as possible. Animals are considered to belong to two different groups if the closest animals from the two groups are separated by a distance of over 30m, and 5) forest and terrain type where the animals were seen. If possible the number of young (fawns/calves less than 1 year of age) seen in the group should also be recorded. A broad habitat category (vegetation and terrain type) needs to be recorded for each sighting eg. 12 chital (10 adults and 2 young) were seen at 6:40 am, in mixed teak forest, gently undulating terrain. Each line transect needs to be walked atleast on three different mornings for estimating ungulate encounter rates during the country wide monitoring done every four years. For intensive monitoring of source populations (Tiger Reserves and Protected Areas) the line transects should be walked a minimum of eight times in summer and in winter. DATA SHEET - 2 Encounter Rate on Line Transects Observer name: .......................................... Start time: ............................ Date: ............................. End time: ................................. ID no. of line transect:......................... Total length: ................km Forest division:................ Range : ................................ Beat:............................. Transect forest type: .............. Transect terrain type .:...................... Weather condition: Cloudy/Clear sky/Rain Beginning GPS Lat: ...........................N; Long: ......................................E End GPS Lat : ...................................N; Long: ......................................E Sighting No 1 Time Species* Total Nos. (Adults & Young) Young Forest Type Terrain Type Remarks 2 *Species that need to be recorded on the transect: chital, sambar, nilgai, gaur, barking deer, elephant, rhino, wild buffalo, swamp deer, hog deer, chowsingha, blackbuck, chinkara, wild pig, langur, peafowl, hare, cattle (live stock), and other mammalian species seen.
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