Cape May waterthrush update: 4 are now in Venezuela and 8 in Colombia. Off Cuba, NOWA_26-32 was detected moving in a straight line at 19-20 km/h, 10 km offshore, before dawn: likely riding a boat. 13 days later it was near Cartagena, Colombia. #Bird #Migration #Motus @nature.org #NJAudubon
Both CTT and RRF are celebrating anniversaries this year, and we're just excited we can do it together. CTT was founded by folks who were sick of being told that they had to settle for less, especially when they were trying to do meaningful raptor conservation work. #raptor #research #conservation
Can Monarch butterflies cross the Gulf of Mexico? It appears so! TWO tagged monarchs crossed the Gulf of Mexico in the first trans-Gulf monarch crossings recorded by Project Monarch! Can they find their way to Michoacán? Only time will tell! @ryannorrissci.bsky.social
Three tagged monarchs reached Mexico on October 5, the first of this fall's Project Monarch cohort!! #monarchbutterfly #monarchmigration #ProjectMonarch
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...
Last fall we GPS-tagged a young saw-whet owl at Cape May Point. By April she was in Downeast Maine. A Long-eared Owl we tagged flew 141 miles in about 4 hours one April night, picked up by phones along the way. Help tag this year's owls: capemayowls.org/give #owls
10 new citations featuring CTT technology just landed on our Select Publications page. Monarchs, Desert Kit Foxes. White-backed Vultures. Golden Eagles and more... 🔊☝️celltracktech.com/pages/literature #wildlifetracking #telemetry #movementecology #ornithology
Literature Cited
Select Publications 2026 Fisher, Ashley, Helen M. St John, Gregory W. Mitchell, Ana Diaz Bohorquez, Kristen A. Baum, Elena Oey, Charis Van der Heide, and Leone M. Brown. "Monarch Butterfly BlūMorpho...
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We are so excited to see Paul, Joe and team deploying BlūMorpho tags on Yellow-brows! Meeting Paul and Joe at the EOU meeting in Bangor, Wales, last spring led to some great conversations about tracking vagrant species with this new tech...and now to see those conversations coming to fruition...
Paul Dufour@pauldufour80.bsky.social · last mo.First days at the ringing camp in Pape, Latvia 🇱🇻 Main goal is to try these new Blumorpho (Bluetooth) devices, here on a Yellow-browed Warbler. Hopefully, we could get nice trajectories of this species in Europe coupled with the genomic origin of each bird.🤞
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
Some great researchers doing the hard work here at @nyserda.bsky.social #StateOfTheScience2026 to understand the potential impacts of offshore wind and how to balance renewable energy with wildlife conservation. #BRI #UCSC
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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Our SensorStation receivers are now collecting data from buoys off the New Jersey coast - helping track birds and bats in offshore habitats as part of the NJDEP RMI. Big shoutout to the partners! #OTS #NJDEP #SensorStation #CTT #WildlifeTelemetry #MotusWTS www.fondriest.com/news/trackin...
Tracking Birds and Bats in Offshore Areas with Buoys
The New Jersey DEP is sponsoring efforts to deploy an array of offshore monitoring systems to study bird and bat activity off its coast for the next several years.
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Our friend and colleague on many projects, including #ProjectSNOWstorm, Scott Weidensaul, provides insight into the linkage between healthy #bird population and a healthy planet. Read the full article 👇 news.mongabay.com/2026/04/how-... #BirdsRule #WildlifeConservation #Ornithology 🪶🦩🐦⬛
How saving birds protects the planet: Interview with author Scott Weidensaul
Best-selling author Scott Weidensaul’s new book is a celebration of species recovery efforts led by scientists, conservationists, and Indigenous communities around the world, beginning with the succes...
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Research helping us better understand eastern golden eagles, featuring Michael Lanzone, Trish Miller, and collaborators, and guiding stronger conservation. www.creators.com/read/bonnie-... #GoldenEagle #Conservation #WildlifeTelemetry
We're getting to the turning point where monarchs start to leave the overwintering sites. Follow along on the Project Monarch app as we watch the back end of the migratory generation's migration unfold. #MigrationScience #WildlifeConservation #WildlifeTelemetry #CMPASC @xercessociety.bsky.social
It has been an exciting Saturday! The #ProjectMonarch story has been featured twice on @npr.org today - once during the #BBCWeekend newscast this morning, and once during #WaitWaitDontTellMe during the Limerick Challenge! Here's a sick visualization by #CapeMayArtsAndScienceCenter 's Sean Burcher!
How do you track an animal that weighs 0.5g? With #WildlifeTech that weighs almost nothing at all. The #BlūMorpho is the smallest wildlife transmitter ever deployed on a #MonarchButterfly built in Cape May, NJ. Tiny tag, huge leap for migration science. #ScienceInMotion #WildlifeConservation
A scientific milestone once considered impossible. Huge gratitude to all of our partners from 2023 to today: #CMPASC, #MotusWTS, @birdscanada.bsky.social, @xercessociety.bsky.social and the incredible community of researchers who made this dream real. We've only just begun! 🦋 (Article @nytimes.com)
The Xerces Society is made up of some of the best invertebrate researchers and conservationists. We are so excited to work with them whenever we can- and so glad that they are an integral part of the #ProjectMonarch Collaboration!
The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation@xercessociety.bsky.social · 12mo agoDiscover the incredible full story of Project Monarch, a collaborative project by @celltracktech.bsky.social, Cape May Point Arts & Science Center, and 20+ partners including Xerces! 🦋 xerces.org/press/revolu... 📡 Hear from the CTT team in coverage by @nytimes.com ➡️ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...
Today we, along with over 20 amazing collaborators, made history- but we've only just begun! Check out the NYT article and click the link within to see more about the #ProjectMonarch Collaboration. #monarchscience #conservationscience #wildlifetracking
We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.
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From rain to starlight; an engaging plenary to a night in the Costa Rican highlands with Ernesto Carman and the Unspotted Saw-whet Owl. Science, persistence, and conservation at their best. We're all excited for what’s ahead. #RRF2025 #RaptorResearch #WildlifeTech #CostaRica 🦉🪶🇨🇷
Hawks, swifts & hummers—Costa Rica in motion. Broad-winged Hawks lifting with 100s of White-collared Swifts; Volcano, Scintillant & Lesser Violetears jousting over flowers near Poás. Back in San José for the #RRF2025 conference and so stoked! #BirdMigration #CostaRica
Looking for a job, or to pursue an advanced academic degree in ornithology? Be sure to follow Dr Lucy Mitchell- she reposts the best opportunities! bsky.app/profile/lucy...
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Heading to Costa Rica for #RRF2025! Had to leave Cape May at 2:30am to stay ahead of the nor’easter bearing down on the region. Fingers crossed we get out of Newark and find a way around this storm! #RaptorConservation #RaptorResearch #BirbsRule #Ornithology #PuraVida
Check out our most recent newsletter with timely data about the #RRF2025 meeting! us6.campaign-archive.com?e=__test_ema...
In Costa Rica for the Raptor Research Foundation conference 🇨🇷 and already speechless — Mike & Trish joined the Talamanca Hawk Watch where 2–4 K raptors ride each thermal south. Migration, family, and science all in one view. #RRF2025 #RaptorMigration #CostaRica #WildlifeTech
Our VP of Global Market Development was across the pond contributing to a special symposium on European #MotusWTS last week during the @eounion.bsky.social ‘s #EOU2025 Congress.
Dr Danni Hinchcliffe@dannihinchy.bsky.social · last yr.It's time to join the #Motus wildlife tracking network! @woodcreeper.bsky.social gives an impressive overview of the advancement of Motus tracking & its potential for #ornithology #conservation - we need more stations, want to get involved? @eounion.bsky.social #ecology #migration #EOU2025 motus.org
Will Cresswell delivers an excellent plenary talk at the 15th European Ornithologists' Congress in Bangor, Wales #EOU2025. Oh and he's a bang-on doppelgänger for Edward Norton.
Some excellent talks about the effect of light pollution on birds at #EOU2025 European Ornithologists' Congress in Bangor, Wales.
