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2/ Each detection is placed where the receiving device is. This device moved 11.3 km in 35 min on a steady ESE heading, 10-13 km off Cayo Romano: a vessel. The bird stayed in range the whole time. Overnight it had been raining with a 25-30 km/h east wind. @birdscanada.bsky.social #MotusWTS #CapeMay
November 4, 2026 at 9:31 PM
celltracktech.bsky.social
The first of the fall 2026 Project Monarch cohort have made it into Mexico!! Check out the press release for details! #monarch #butterfly #movementEcology #MotusWTS

projectmonarch.org/press/2026-1...
October 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM
celltracktech.bsky.social
A Northern Waterthrush tagged in Cape May, NJ left after sunset on Sep 11. Two weeks later it was over Colombia! Jamaica -> Colombia included ~800 km of open Caribbean. 3,082 km so far! @birdscanada.bsky.social @originalstu.bsky.social #MotusWTS #BirdMigration #ornithology @nature.org
September 27, 2026 at 11:11 PM
andyjboyce.bsky.social
We're hiring PAID ($1800/mo) interns/technicians to work on grassland bird ecology and conservation in #Montana.

Nest-searching, #MotusWTS tracking, prairie-dogs and more...
#ornithology

jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
November 28, 2023 at 5:23 PM
andyjboyce.bsky.social
Another Sprague's Pipit record on the Pacific coast of Mexico (!), well outside the known winter range. Feb 10 & Feb 19, 2023 near Ciudad Obregón, Sonora. Full year movements also pictured Thanks to Pronatura Noroeste and Julian G.W. for maintaining these #motusWTS stations! #ornithology
October 17, 2023 at 5:28 PM
stu-mackenzie.bsky.social
This story started more than 20 years ago when Cuban ornithologist Freddy Santana joined us at Long Point Bird Observatory! Fast forward, we’re slowly rolling out #MotusWTS infrastructure and projects to learn more about the importance of Cuba to migratory birds! @birdscanada.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
stu-mackenzie.bsky.social
More Motus #MotusWTS - this time on European Blackbirds! @birdscanada.bsky.social
avianbiology.bsky.social Journal of Avian Biology @avianbiology.bsky.social · Jan 28
NEW PAPER: determinants of stopover duration in migratory blackbirds: lean birds extend stopovers, immune status has a weak effect. Weather conditions (cloud cover, tailwinds) are more influential.

➡️ https://vist.ly/3mtjme6

#ornithology #migration #ecoimmunology #birds
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Fig. 1 from the article: Departure moments of blackbirds on Vlieland were associated with positive tailwinds, low cloud cover scores, and low scaled mass indices at arrival. In panel (a), horizontal lines represent the time each individual spent on the stopover location since the moment of first capture (open plotting symbols) until the moment of departure (vertical end line). In panel (b), cloud cover at sunrise or the moment of an individual's departure are plotted over date. Fig. 2 from the article: Minimal adequate model fits with (dotted blue line), and without (solid red line) a random intercept for the day of tagging, with corresponding 95% confidence intervals (shaded blue and red areas, respectively). Lines show the ratio between the risk of departure, relative to an individual with all other covariates set at the sample's mean, for (a) scaled mass index, (b) haptoglobin level (the residual concentration over pre-scan absorbance at 450 nm) Fig. 2 from the article: Minimal adequate model fits with (dotted blue line), and without (solid red line) a random intercept for the day of tagging, with corresponding 95% confidence intervals (shaded blue and red areas, respectively). Lines show the ratio between the risk of departure, relative to an individual with all other covariates set at the sample's mean, for (c) tailwind component, and (d) cloud cover score.
January 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
natingui.bsky.social
Field trip to define a new #motuswts at #Pitilla North Caribe #CostaRica @gdfcf_org @ACGuanacaste 🐦🌿
December 5, 2024 at 11:45 PM
lotektelemetry.bsky.social
🌟 Meet Ian Davidson-Watts! 🍃
From the UK to NZ, Ian’s tracking 🦇 bats using cutting-edge technology 🚁.

Join our #LotekTelemetryTalks webinar on Tracking Bats!

📅 Wed, May 28 | Register: lotek.com/webinars/

📽️ Heli-tracking in action: youtu.be/fnvQffzqgag?...

#AdvancingWildlifeScience #motusWTS
May 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
lotektelemetry.bsky.social
Join us for our upcoming #LotekTelemetryTalks webinar on Tracking Bats! 🦇

Olivier Vinet, Ian Davidson Watts & Sander Lagerveld will share field insights on using innovative tracking technologies to study bat movement and behaviour.

🔗 Register here: lotek.com/webinars/

#TelemetryTuesday #MotusWTS
May 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
lotektelemetry.bsky.social
#NanoTags on Jack Snipe! A collaborative project is tracking habitat & winter movements using #motuswts. 🌍 Understanding these patterns helps to protect these incredible birds!

📸: Oliver Metcalfe & @charlottefoote.bsky.social

#LotekTelemetry #AdvancingWildlifeScience #BirdsCanada

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Photo of Jack Snipe in the hand of researchers after placing a NanoTag VHF transmitter on its back. Photo by Oliver Metcalfe Photo of Jack Snipe in the hand of researchers after placing a NanoTag VHF transmitter on its back. Photo by @charlottefoote.bsky.social
February 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
dmennill.bsky.social
Recording the dawn chorus next to a Motus tower on Kent Island, New Brunswick. The towers record the migratory birds' flight paths; our microphones record the birds when they've arrived. #motuswts #ornithology
November 19, 2024 at 11:51 AM
lucyjmitchell.bsky.social
Really excited to be part of a round table discussion on use of #MotusWTS as a tool for population reinforcement tomorrow afternoon at the Life Connect Ricotí Congreso in Madrid.
Also really enjoyed the super quick train from Oviedo to Madrid taking me through all the Spanish landscapes!
July 1, 2026 at 4:48 PM
lucyjmitchell.bsky.social
Members of @ecobird.bsky.social are prepping for the next fieldwork season in the #Taitahills in Kenya. The team will be trialling #MotusWTS 🐦🔊 to track dispersal of #PlacidGreenbuls. We have practice oranges in the place of birds! 🐦 😅
June 8, 2026 at 11:39 AM
lucyjmitchell.bsky.social
We rigged up the test #MotusWTS #sensrognome receiver today and yesterday to look at range and see where we should put the real thing at Stala and Kartong Bird Observatory. Did some walk tests with the tag - channelling my inner nightingale!
November 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
lucyjmitchell.bsky.social
Doing some cool but challenging sciencing in the Gambia 🐦📡
Testing out the detection range for a #MotusWTS installation 🤞

So many cool species seen as well, lots of ideas for projects! @ecobird.bsky.social @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
lucyjmitchell.bsky.social
Adventure time! Off to Kartong Bird Observatory in the Gambia to test out #MotusWTS using a mobile #Sensorgnome and @lotektelemetry.bsky.social Nanotag!

Me and my load of tech and trusty duct tape will be repping @ecobird.bsky.social funded by @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social.

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November 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
lucyjmitchell.bsky.social
Really nice info on one of the coolest migration stories going.

This is what #motuswts can do now- these teeny tiny @celltracktech.bsky.social blu series tags can follow the smallest of creatures.
saskajanet.bsky.social Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · Sep 26
UPDATE: I saw it happen! At the Birds Canada research station at the tip of Long Point I watched an expert ever-so-gently and carefully put one of these tiny tags on a monarch. Let me walk you through the steps (1/4)
saskajanet.bsky.social Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · Sep 20
So cool to visit the Motus workshop at Birds Canada headquarters. The Motus community is studying the movement of birds, bats and insects. This tiny radio telemetry device will fit on a Monarch butterfly 😲 #invertebrates #birds 🌿 www.birdscanada.org/bird-science...
October 8, 2025 at 5:08 AM
lucyjmitchell.bsky.social
Very excited to finally say it's online!! New paper in @society4conbio.bsky.social Conservation Biology on how we can use #MotusWTS automated VHF across Europe to understand more about flyways and our declining migratory species.
We hope this will push more collaboration across the continent!
March 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
spurnbirdobs.bsky.social
An impressive amount of data from 1 Skylark! Again, showing the effectiveness and versatility of Motus!

#MotusWTS
wielandheim.bsky.social Wieland Heim @wielandheim.bsky.social · Oct 24
A skylark I tagged last autumn in northernmost Germany with a #Motus transmitter (to study #pesticide effects) was now detected near our University in Oldenburg - we @migecol.bsky.social col.bsky.social now have data from 3 migration seasons for this bird!

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#birdmigration
Map showing detections of radio-tracked individual. Skylark with radio transmitter before release.
October 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
spurnbirdobs.bsky.social
Only a few Jack Snipe have been tagged so far, but the data emerging on their spring migration is already proving revelatory. Thanks to the #MotusWTS system, we’re beginning to uncover previously unknown aspects of their movement.
Well done to the team @ldvnnr.bsky.social - exciting times!
ldvnnr.bsky.social LDV_NNR @ldvnnr.bsky.social · Apr 16
Exciting to receive our first Motus ‘ping’ of a recently tagged Jack Snipe on its return migration. After spending time in the #LDV it moved rather quickly across the North Sea and pinged three masts in Germany, and is the first German recovery of a BTO ringed Jack Snipe @yorkbirding.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
spurnbirdobs.bsky.social
Demonstrating the versatility of the #MotusWTS system using nano tags to track birds, bats, and other animals. Collaborative research and partnership—the way forward!
lotektelemetry.bsky.social Lotek @lotektelemetry.bsky.social · Feb 12
#NanoTags on Jack Snipe! A collaborative project is tracking habitat & winter movements using #motuswts. 🌍 Understanding these patterns helps to protect these incredible birds!

📸: Oliver Metcalfe & @charlottefoote.bsky.social

#LotekTelemetry #AdvancingWildlifeScience #BirdsCanada

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Photo of Jack Snipe in the hand of researchers after placing a NanoTag VHF transmitter on its back. Photo by Oliver Metcalfe Photo of Jack Snipe in the hand of researchers after placing a NanoTag VHF transmitter on its back. Photo by @charlottefoote.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
spurnbirdobs.bsky.social
For example, it helps us understand which habitats birds overwinter in and use during migration, providing a good insight into avian ecology. You can find out more about #MotusWTS at motus.org

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February 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
scottishbirding.bsky.social
In a first for Scotland, this Motus receiver was installed in Fife as part of a new Rock Pipit tracking project led by SOC & Tay Ringing Group.

More info about #MotusWTS (motus.org) wildlife tracking system and this exciting project can be found in the latest issue of Scottish Birds.

#BirdingFife
Three people stood next to the Motus receiver, a tall pole with four directional antenna attached
June 19, 2024 at 12:23 PM
celltracktech.bsky.social
The #SouthernSierraResearchStation has been working with our tech since 2019 and it's great to see how much information they're able to gather on small - previously untrackable - species. Check it out! southernsierraresearch.org/testing-new-... #MotusWTS #WildlifeConservation #techforgood
Testing new Blu+ tags | Southern Sierra Research Station
We have been invited to purchase some of the first of a new type of tag. The exciting thing about these new tags is that they can be detected by cell phones and other IoT devices (think AirTags) as th...
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May 22, 2026 at 3:45 PM