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		28 July 2006, 15:00 Marking foxes. The fox den under the London-houses is famous. The foxes are very tame and used to people. Are they still behaving natural? They have such a large impact on the goose population, so I have to study these foxes too. In order to recognize them, they need to be marked. Thanks to Eva Fuglei, Bjorn Andes and Ian Gjertz, I was allowed to tag them individually. Today I started catching and I was able to tag 9 foxes within one day. I think I still miss the father and one puppy. We used traditional fox traps. A stone on the door is enough weight to keep it closed when a fox is inside.

puppy caught	with big gloves	handle with care	fixation

ready for marking	colourful marks	weighing	release

number	left ear	right ear	size	sex	bodymass	name	We will start a facilty on our webpage to enter sightings of foxes and geese. We are very interested in keeping track of the whereabouts of these foxes, over the autumn and winter. Please keep a check on www.arcticstation.nl and see under [sightings of animals]. For sightings, you only have to know which colour in which ear, because the colourcombinations are unique. We than name them by two colournames, left ear (seen from the fox perspective) first and than the colour of the right ear.
1	green	blue 206	puppy	not sexed	1360 g	Cecilia
2	black	red 106	puppy	male	1460 g	Maarten
3	green	red 105	puppy	male	1396 g	Daan
4	white	red 104	puppy	male	1440 g	Oddvar
5	black	blue 207	puppy	female	1220 g	Linda
6	black	yellow 12	puppy	female	1363 g	Alexandra
7	green	yellow 11	puppy	female	1190 g	Randi
8	white	blue 205	adult	female	-	Tina
9	white	yellow 10	puppy	male	1396 g	Rick
10	red 125	white	puppy	male	1402 g	Janwillem

The first nine foxes were caught 28/7/2006 between 13:00 and 20:00. The next day I had two recaptures and decided to wait with baiting the traps until an unmarked fox was around. 30/7/2007 17:30, we caught the last puppy (no. 10).

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