Ornithologist Arlo Raim, KB9LLF (SK):

Arlo Raim, KB9LLF, of Danville, Illinois, was killed by a southbound Canadian National freight train on the morning of Friday, August 20. He was 67. Raim had been in Pratt's Wayne Woods Forest Preserve -- part of the Forest Preserve District of DuPage (Illinois) County -- to monitor the effect of increased train traffic on cardinals. "He was one of, if not the best, bird tracker in the world," said Dr Mike Ward, Coordinator of the Critical Trends Assessment Program at the Illinois Natural History Survey and one of Raim's supervisors. "He used radio telemetry to track animals as varied as peregrine falcons, coyotes, turtles and northern cardinals." According to Ward, Raim's most noteworthy research may have been the 2002 tracking that showed crows changed roosts every two days, a discovery that shed light on why West Nile virus is able to spread so rapidly. Read more here http://www.arrl.org/news/ornithologist-arlo-raim-kb9llf-sk.

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