mist net
noun
: a finely woven large mesh net erected to entangle and capture birds or bats in flight
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The group uses an audio lure to entice the birds, capturing them in mist nets to bring back to the banding station.
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Kayla Randall, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
Nearby, the anticipation of scientific discovery was high as others trudged through thick brush and over rocky trails to recover and examine specimens snagged in mist nets stretching more than 1,000 feet across the divide.
—Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
During the one-hour window of time between passengers disembarking and new passengers arriving for the next cruise to Mexico, Zambrano placed mist nets around the owl’s perch of choice, according to FWC.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 9 Mar. 2023
But with the 2012 and 2021 birds in Illinois, another photographed in Texas this year and another caught in a mist net in October in Quebec, of all places, that soon may change.
—Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 29 Nov. 2021
In the evenings, the researchers strung up a mist net at an entrance to the mineshaft, and waited for dusk, when the bats flew out to eat.
—Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2021
For several years, the fine mist nets used to catch the tiny migrants sat unused.
—Ben Raines, AL.com, 20 Apr. 2018
Rodríguez carefully untangled a squawking hummingbird from a mist net.
—National Geographic, 18 Apr. 2018
Amid the scrub, the researchers had strung mist nets: 40-foot-long black nylon nets spread tautly between two poles.
—Bruce M. Beehler, Smithsonian, 16 Apr. 2018
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Kayla Randall, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
Nearby, the anticipation of scientific discovery was high as others trudged through thick brush and over rocky trails to recover and examine specimens snagged in mist nets stretching more than 1,000 feet across the divide.
—Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
During the one-hour window of time between passengers disembarking and new passengers arriving for the next cruise to Mexico, Zambrano placed mist nets around the owl’s perch of choice, according to FWC.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 9 Mar. 2023
But with the 2012 and 2021 birds in Illinois, another photographed in Texas this year and another caught in a mist net in October in Quebec, of all places, that soon may change.
—Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 29 Nov. 2021
In the evenings, the researchers strung up a mist net at an entrance to the mineshaft, and waited for dusk, when the bats flew out to eat.
—Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2021
For several years, the fine mist nets used to catch the tiny migrants sat unused.
—Ben Raines, AL.com, 20 Apr. 2018
Rodríguez carefully untangled a squawking hummingbird from a mist net.
—National Geographic, 18 Apr. 2018
Amid the scrub, the researchers had strung mist nets: 40-foot-long black nylon nets spread tautly between two poles.
—Bruce M. Beehler, Smithsonian, 16 Apr. 2018
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“Mist net.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mist%20net. Accessed 16 Mar. 2025.
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