248 Birds, Bats, and Beyond: Motus Wildlife Tracking in Coastal California
bats and butterflies
Join Laney White for a presentation on Motus. The Motus Wildlife Tracking System is an international collaborative research network that uses coordinated radio-telemetry arrays to study movements of small flying animals including birds, bats, and insects.?These small-bodied animals have been challenging to study in the past because other tracking devices are too large for them to carry. Motus arrays are made up of automated radio telemetry receiving stations that detect signals from tiny tags worn by animals. The stations are deployed and maintained by collaborators around the world. Information collected helps fill critical data gaps on wildlife movement and behavior.
Seabird and bat researchers from the USGS Western Ecological Research Center have teamed up to leverage Motus to study how flying animals move through the marine environment. They are in the process of adding 25 remote telemetry stations to the existing global Motus Wildlife Tracking System along the coast and offshore of Central and Southern California. They aim to foster collaboration with a variety of partners to enhance wildlife tracking capacity in the Pacific Region. The new stations will support data-collection efforts on the timing and scale of movements for shorebirds, seabirds, migratory bats, and other taxa.
Following the Motus presentation, Festival leaders Bob & Carmen Keally and Terri May will assist in a short (30 minute) birding walk to check out the seabirds around the Light Station.
Meets at the Piedras Blancas Light Station, 15950 Cabrillo Hwy (Hwy 1), San Simeon, CA 93452. You must arrive on time as the gates will be closed shortly after the 2pm meeting time.
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Fee: $0.00
Trip Type: Presentation
Transportation Type: Self-Drive
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Day: Friday
Start Time: 2:00 PM
End Time: 4:00 PM
Meeting Venue Location
15950 Cabrillo Hwy
San Simeon CA 93452
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