Fisher Denbox Update 2017
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- Опубліковано 17 січ 2018
- This is an update on the Fisher Artificial Denbox Project. The project is seeking to determine if female fisher (Pekania pennanti) will use the boxes to give birth to and raise their young. This video covers results from the 3rd and 4th year of the project.
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Wow, you guys are great. Good job. We just got sight of our first fishers here in suburban Essex Jct, Vermont. I may ask F&W about Artificial Denboxes here. Thanks
We have them in Roxbury, vt. Caught them on the game cameras
@@gdglock I cross country ski in the sticks over by Haugen WI, and I see fishers over there all the time. They're doing great out here. Super cool animals. Very confident, so easy to observe, and when shown respect they are in no way aggressive....just cute.
Thanks for sharing Larry. That's very cool! I've enjoyed following along with the progress of your Denboxes.
Amazing work you do. Thank you so much! And thanks for sharing. So heart warming to see care going back to nature.
The squirrel like 😂 “viva la resistance” then runs off
Very interesting and very good work for the environment. Where I live there are too many squirrels and no fishers. I have seen fishers a couple of times in the wild.
Excellent!! Much success to you!!
Good that you recognized your mistake and fixed it.
Imagine you are alone in your tent in the middle of nowhere in the Catskill Mountains and you are hearing that sound out in the forest! And you didn't know it was a Fisher! Was a sleepless night but now I know.
what a dear man.
Thanks for such an excellent video! Very enjoyable.
I'm in Eire. We have no fishers here. But, we have pine marten. I've had a female raising her kits in my roof for years now. Finally got fed up with the consequences, so I blocked her access and provided an industry standard nest / nursery box for her.
It's out of sight, out of mind. Round the back of my cottage. I just sort of tell myself I'll 'look at it'. One day. Some time. I don't know what I expect to look for / find! I'm not ~ legally ~ allowed to open it. Getting an endoscope in would be tricky, due to the design.
But, you've just cracked it! What else am I going to do with the Bushnell Trail Cam, sitting on my shelf?! :D Brilliant inspiration! Thanks!
No pine Martins in erie yet only fishers
That was great. Thank you for sharing
Great video!
Great video
Oh please, do we really need that many fishers? I don't think so.
Awesome video ! Thx for sharing . Can you give the measurements & dimensions of the box 📦? I’d like to build a few myself & give them to my brothers that have seen these in Kane PA woods . 👍👏
That should do it, metal around the frame won’t make it easy for larger predators to get in.
Love baby predators, they always start out so round, squeaky, playful, and precious. I wonder anyone can hate them so passionately, just detached from nature and the circle of life I guess.
no, actually they kill everything cats , opossums, fox , nasty bastards
Can you make a video on how to make one of these? I have a female fisher cat that comes to my house every night at just about the same time. I’d like to build some of these to help them survive. I’m in NY state. This is the first one I’ve ever seen and I watch her on my home cameras I have.
Trust me, in upstate NY they need no help surviving
Good work... 👍👏😻
Why are the boxes so small at the bottom? Wouldn't it be better if they were a little larger to accommodate larger litters?
What a lovely animal, I just saw one run across the road the other day, it was definitely a male.
Good looking out..?
Why didn’t you save the babies? Did the male eat them?
Great work. Is this in the USA? If so, what state? (Could be Canada.)
I think he mentioned BC (as in British Columbia, Canada) in one of these videos
I’d love to build some fisher den boxes for my property. How can I get the measurements for one?
You can find plans for building denboxes at: www.bcfisherhabitat.ca/wp-content/uploads/Davis_2016_-Fisher-Denbox-Report-and-Construction-Drawings-with-2018-addendum.pdf . Have fun and let me know if you get any fishers.
@@davisenvironmentalltd.3894 Thanks for the info....
You guys are awesome! Love these animals
Really? You love them? Do you know how they create terror to other animals? They kill just for fun even.
I tried making 6 wood duck houses when I was younger. 2 were occupied by fishers the 1stvqnd 2nd year
What are the dimensions for the box?
Hi Austin. You can find plans for building denboxes at: www.bcfisherhabitat.ca/wp-content/uploads/Davis_2016_-Fisher-Denbox-Report-and-Construction-Drawings-with-2018-addendum.pdf . Have fun and let me know if you get any fishers.
this is cool just a little jump scare warning next time
Are fischers canibalistic?
well yes since the male killed all her babies
@@soldatheero Just because he killed them does not necessarily mean he ate them. It’s common behavior of many predators to practice infanticide of their own species and not consume them. Lions and bears are a well known examples. Raptors are a know examples of canibalistic behavior usually preying on nestlings. I’m curious as what Musteloid behavior is specifically in this regard.
@@soldatheero Just because the male fisher killed the kits doesnt mean he ate them, some species kill babies for dominance. For Example a Male Lion will invade a lion pack and kill the cubs so it can reproduce its own DNA with the lioness. Its savage but true.
@@rocket5557 they kill for food or territorial reason , as for the kit they got probably killed for food since they are not territorial threat and a easy prey
2:18 200 kits?!
Oh, OK... "two hungry kits"
I thought the same thing lol
Yeah I heard 200 also..😆
Same haha my jaw dropped at first
0:58, made me jump. Amazing creatures, these martens
I'm wrong. They're only related to martens, lol
got me too
They will kill skunks. It was witnessed by someone.
The mother made me jump
The father's eat the young? What on earth? :(
He wasn't the father of these kits, but an unrelated male that just happened to find an unguarded nest with some free snacks inside.
If you have a inside outside cat .... might as well say goodbye to it . 1 fisher is 1 too many .
So its okay for your cat to kill songbirds and wildlife around a feeder,but heaven forbid the other way?1 cat around a feeder is one to many,BANG!
I’d argue you should keep your cat inside unless it’s a barn cat to manage rodents. Feral cats are the #1 predator to native songbirds across the continental US. If anything, fisher cats should be praised for their management of feral cats. I can even relate, I had a wonderful cat who continually weaseled her way outside despite my discouragement and attempt to keep her inside. Unfortunately she snuck out one night when I was bringing in groceries and never came back. Despite my melancholy of her missing presence in my own life, I recognize that the vocal fishers around my property most likely got her and that is better than her praying on song birds or starving to death. Such is life. Keep your surroundings native and they will stay balanced
Cats kill hundreds of song birds every year, not to mention have you ever seen the damage a porcupine can do to a forest? Fishers will hunt and kill porcupines and keep them in check!!!!
@@lukemorris2888 native, balanced..? Humans fucked that one up a long time ago..nice idea tho.. I live in Maine and I can tell you this whole state has been altered from it's natural state...Rivers flooded redirected, ponds/lakes drained/flooded, the complete clear cutting of the state at least 3x since the 1700s.. not to mention an ancient stone lithic society almost completely dynamited and bulldozed away purposely and ignorantly in fear of well.. many things... For starters, generational landowners fear of national publicity and preservation. . . But that's just the beginning.. all these secrets hidden under the guise of being a 'natural State'.. it fools a big majority Everytime.
why would a male kill the babies..? To make the mother breed again ? ** txs and thumbs up from lake George, NY.....I have lots of Fisher around here, I feed them in the winter with deer carcasses and have a live stream camera on them. Hours of footage on my channel.
ugh! Cruel much?
While the Fisher served a purpose and helped reduce the number of porcupines which in large numbers will cause havoc on a forest by eating tree barks. Fishers are destructive, and in large numbers can decimate waterfowl and rabbit populations. They’re also capable of killing adult Lynx, fox and fawns. During the 19th century and up to the 1950’s farmers were given the green light to mercilessly poison them at will. Try reading unbiased reports on weasels, ferrets and fishers and you may have a different point of view.
"In large numbers" you mean, like, before humans started eradicating them? Back when the natural environment was actually very healthy? Or do you mean in excess of their natural population, which is a completely useless statement because an excess of anything is destructive; that's why it's called an excess. It sounds like you're the one working with dated and biased information put out by farmers and trappers in an attempt to justify their destructive enterprises. It's funny, when I started reading actual unbiased information put out by ecologists and biologists, mustelids actually became my favorite carnivore family.
"They decimate waterfowl and rabbit populations" in case you haven't realized, those things breed like there's no tomorrow. They *need* to be decimated otherwise they'll take over. "They can calso kill lynx, fox, and fawns" aaaand so what? Lynx are a major predator of hares. Thought you cared about those? Bobcats are major predators of fishers so it balances out. Can you point out anything fishers do that 1) doesn't need to be done and 2) isn't done by other predators you're not prejudiced toward? The objective truth is the environment would be much worse off without fishers, weasels, polecats, etc. If those species were going to destroy anything they would've done so already. The only place I can think of where mustelids are actually a problem is New Zealand and guess what, we're the ones that put them there.
You're worried about savage, merciless, environmentally destructive species? Look in the mirror. You'll find the worst there's ever been.
@@ups7739 I don't have quite the same opinion of farmers that you do. And those opinions would make it difficult for us to find common ground, I suppose.
I would hope that the fishers, like the one I saw a mile away this morning, would stay where they are and not kill my 3 chickens. I need the eggs and they help with the tick population, which in our area carry a huge risk of Lyme disease.
@@ups7739 good post. What mustelids did they transplant to New Zealand?