Innovating for Wildlife Research and Monitoring

Welcome

Welcome to NatureCounters. Though this website is still under construction, we hope it will give you an idea of what we can do for your research or conservation project. We are a small British company who design and build innovative systems for studying and monitoring wildlife, with a strong focus on university research. We use rapid development techniques and keep costs low by using our own 3D-Printing, cnc-routing and electronics assembly equipment. Our most popular products are our Nestbox RFID visit loggers, which log every nestbox entry and exit of individual birds, and our RFID selective bird feeders which log every visit of each individual bird to a bird feeder, and can implement rule-based access to individual birds at set times and under specific conditions for behaviour research.

Our equipment has been insturmental in numerous academic papers and PhD theses, and we have customised and adapted our core RFID datalogger technology for numerous individual research projects, and even a BIAZA award for our RFID weighing stations for use in zoos.

Follow the links in these following sections to see more about our projects and technologies

Project areas

These are just a few of the areas for which we have developed solutions, and there have been lots, lots more. Find out more on our projects page.

Great tit sitting at the entrance to a nestbox fitted with a visit counter

Low power, directional visit loggers

RFID Logging for Nesting and Provisioning analysis

For burrows and nestboxes and bait boxes, from bees to bats, from puffins to jackdaws, from great tits to fruit bats, we’ve monitored them all

Rule based, networked, RFID Selective Bird Feeders

Animal Behaviour Research

From zebra finches to jackdaws, from Spain to the arctic

Tracking each animal’s weight and terrain with RFID weighing stations

Post-release Welfare Monitoring

RFID feeders with built in weighing platforms

RFID Animal Weighing Stations

Zoo Welfare Monitoring

Reducing stress by allowing animals to weigh themselves

Products…

These are some of our standard products

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RFID Nestbox Visit Logger for wooden nestboxes

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RFID Nestbox Visit Logger for Schwegler nestboxes

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RFID Selective small bird feeder

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RFID NutFeeder with weighing platform

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