How to Use radio collar in a Sentence

radio collar

noun
  • Members of a field team track the wild wolves via radio collars.
    — Washington Post, 18 June 2019
  • The bears were both ear tagged and radio collared before their release.
    — Nicole Blanchard, idahostatesman, 9 July 2017
  • Weiss believes the predators, none of which had radio collars, were gunned down.
    — Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2018
  • Lemon said the radio collar from the animal was returned to the park.
    — Matthew Brown, Star Tribune, 23 Mar. 2021
  • The next day Sadie, a bobcat wearing a radio collar, was found dead in a wash.
    — Kye Graves, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The bear was identified by its radio collar and ear markings.
    — Colleen Barry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The groups acknowledge that wolves have been removed in the past after radio collars helped track them.
    — Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Each breeding female wears a radio collar and is monitored around the clock.
    — The Economist, 20 Dec. 2017
  • She was captured and fitted with a radio collar in the fall of 2022.
    — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2023
  • Lights and noisemakers, some of them activated by radio collars on wolves, can frighten off the canids.
    — Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 10 June 2018
  • Mariua wears a radio collar so researchers can track her and her babies, Karai and Porã.
    — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The healthy grizzly was fitted with a radio collar and released into an undisclosed location.
    — CBS News, 6 June 2022
  • Touch and see polar bear artifacts like a pelt and radio collar; make a polar bear craft to take home, and learn more about how climate change affects wild polar bears.
    — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The biologists were at the site to put radio collars on adult females, to check weights and body conditions and to monitor movements.
    — Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News, 11 Sep. 2017
  • To unravel the many mysteries of sand cats, researchers tracked 22 of the felines that had been fitted with radio collars for four years.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 May 2023
  • After performing a health check and giving the wolf a radio collar to track her movements, wolf managers released the animal back into the wild.
    — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 18 July 2024
  • Colorado Parks and Wildlife released images of the black animal wearing what appeared to be a radio collar around its neck.
    — USA TODAY, 12 July 2019
  • Officials wrote in a post shared to Facebook that researchers placed a radio collar on the cub's mother during this year's capture season.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026
  • It was fitted with a radio collar to track its movements in 2018, park spokesperson Morgan Warthin said.
    — Matthew Brown, Star Tribune, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Officials were scrambling to find this female Mexican gray wolf that crossed the border, but her tracking radio collar was broken.
    — Alex Devoid, azcentral, 13 May 2018
  • She was trapped and given a radio collar before making her way into California in 2018.
    — CBS News, 8 Feb. 2020
  • For the New Mexico meadow jumping mouse, an endangered subspecies that weighs less than an ounce, that means using a radio collar that weighs about as much as three raindrops.
    — Nala Rogers, Discover Magazine, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Biologists had followed her movements using a radio collar that wildlife specialists in Oregon placed around her neck in 2017.
    — Maria Cramer, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2020
  • The wolf was the breeding male of the Cornucopia Pack and, along with his mate, had been fitted with a radio collar and tracked by state biologists who monitor the species' recovery.
    — oregonlive, 5 Nov. 2020
  • When a captive mother whelps, or gives birth on her own, managers match her pups with a wild den using GPS coordinates from radio collars placed on packs’ breeding alpha male and female.
    — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2024
  • But the radio collar data show that the mice spend most of their time within 9 meters of the stream’s edge, so thinning operations could probably go much closer to the stream without harming the mice, said Chambers.
    — Nala Rogers, Discover Magazine, 1 Oct. 2019
  • The following year, two Idaho wolves, one outfitted with a radio collar, swam across the Snake River and established Oregon’s first pack in the far northeast of the state.
    — Morgan Heim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The mountain lion appears to be wearing a radio collar, and may have been spotted in the area since the confrontation at the Allen home, according to FOX 31.
    — Travis Fedschun, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Last October, a gray wolf with a purple radio collar was spotted wandering in the mountains about 50 miles north of Downtown Los Angeles.
    — Curbed, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The young wolf stepped into the spotlight in 2017, after wildlife officials in southern Oregon trapped her and fitted her with a GPS radio collar.
    — oregonlive, 8 Feb. 2020

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