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Through a long-term research partnership with the Cornell University Technology for Animal Biology and Environmental Research Lab (TABER), Cellular Tracking Technologies is proud to bring the LifeTag(TM) series of small animal trackers to the market.

This groundbreaking technology allows 0.4g trackers to last for the lifetime of your subjects. Be the first to document fine scale movement of small critters. These unprecedented capabilities are a game changer for studies ranging from migratory tracking to habitat utilization studies.

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Tracking movement is difficult, even with technological advances such as VHF and satellite tags that are still labor and time intensive, have exorbitant costs, and are restricted to large bodied organisms. The commercial availability of CTT LifeTags and the CTT SensorStation has opened up a whole new avenue of research by allowing high resolution tracking for smaller organisms at a reasonable cost. For the first time, after 50 years of monitoring this population of Florida Scrub-Jays, we are finally able to monitor an intriguing life stage of nonbreeding jays at an unprecedented scale. After a few days of tagging our first jay, we were already inundated by the amount of data we were receiving and were able to see where our jays going with incredible detail. We are excited to track multiple jays throughout the season which will help us gain a better understanding of spatial patterns, habitat use, and social interactions of nonbreeding jays which we have never been able to do before.
Young Ha Suh
Graduate Student, Cornell University
CTT has been an incredible project partner over the past several years and offers incredible service and assistance wherever needed. The tracking devices are to-date, the best devices we have used and not only do they look professional, but that operate efficiently and effectively optimising our research work which allows us to get the best out of our tracking studies, helping us to learn more about the species we are trying to save. What also further impresses me with these devices is, the ability to track vultures over 2 minute intervals if needed; which has allowed us to save vultures after colliding with power lines or being poisoned from eating off a poisoned carcass. We have found new breeding sites, new feeding sites and have learnt so much more about the importance of water to vultures, all which would not have been possible with the use of the CTT devices. With strong ethics and passion for species at their core, CTT is without a doubt, my go to organisation for tracking devices and collaboration with existing and future tracking projects.
Kerri Wolter
Founder/Manager, VulPro
Cellular Tracking Technologies has been an absolutely critical partner since we launched Project SNOWstorm in the winter of 2013-14, with the goal of understanding the winter ecology of snowy owls. Since then, we've used CTT transmitters on more than 75 snowy owls in 14 states and provinces. CTT has been incredibly responsive, working with us in an ongoing, adaptive manner to figure out the best approaches in terms of transmitter design, duty cycles and similar issues for a species that had never been tracked before by GSM. They've consistently pushed the envelope in terms of onboard instrumentation like temperature sensors and accelerometers, always trying to increase the kinds of data we can collect without dramatically increasing weight or cost. We simply couldn't do the work we do without CTT.
Scott Weidensaul
co-founder, Project SNOWstorm
The reintroduction of the Bearded Vulture is one of the most ambitious environmental projects in Andalusia, Spain. Having the maximum number of daily locations is needed, and for this reason, it is important to use a technology like that of Cellular Tracking Technologies. We have deployed CTT transmitters on vultures in the natural park of Cazorla and have had positive results. The transmitters are obtaining many more positions than conventional transmitters and are running without glitches. We have been able to detect unknown patterns movement, and we are learning interesting things about using temporary space breeding area. We plan to continue using CTT’s units in the future.
Jose Ramon Benitez Izaguirre
Fundacion Quebrantahuesos
I have deployed over fifty CTT-1100 GPS-GSM cellular transmitters on Bald and Golden Eagles throughout Virginia. I have been very impressed with performance, data resolution, and durability of the CTT-1000. Further, slots on these units are designed for easy attachment of harness straps. The CTT-1100, as well as all models of transmitters from Cellular Tracking Technologies, are produced by biologists, for biologists. If your research needs require high resolution tracking data then Cellular Tracking Technologies transmitters will exceed your expectations.
Jeff Cooper
Biologist, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries