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In this story we look at the transformative journey of Doc from a chocolate-brown eaglet to a majestic bald eagle. This story has it all - Nine years of tracking data, an abandoned house, muddy roads, all of the tell-tale signs of a great story!
Cellular Tracking Technologies (CTT) recently highlighted their collaboration with Point Blue Conservation Science, showcasing how advanced Penguin Trackers are transforming research on Adélie penguins in Antarctica. Dr. Grant Ballard and his team use these solar-powered, Iridium-based devices to collect high-resolution data on penguin behavior, foraging, and environmental responses—insights critical for...
When a rehabilitated pelican is released back into the wild, what happens next? Does it survive? Where does it go? These are the critical questions driving researcher and principal investigator Deborah Jaques of Pacific Eco Logic. In partnership with the Oiled Wildlife Care Network (OWCN), Pelican Science, and a host...
The fall of 2024 marked our second full field season of the Cape May Owl Project, and it turned out to be a memorable one. Over 33 nights from mid-October through the end of December, our team returned to the South Cape May Meadows to continue a banding tradition that...
Since 2020, BIRD Program at Warner Park Nature Center staff and volunteers have deployed 62 HybridTags on three thrush species: 33 Swainson’s Thrush, 21 Gray-cheeked Thrush, and 8 Veery. Of those, only 12 have been tagged during spring migration: 7 Swainson’s Thrush, 3 Gray-cheeked Thrush, and 2 Veery. Until this year,...
From January 24-27, 2024, researchers and students convened at the Las Joyas Scientific Station in Mexico's Sierra de Manantlan Biosphere Reserve to evolve and test the best-possible techniques for attaching tiny radio transmitters to the backs of some of the world’s smallest birds, including the near-threatened Rufous Hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus)....
Having three telemetry-related events under my belt already even before my first full annual cycle here at CTT, I expected that my first American Ornithological Society (AOS) meeting would, like each of the other events, possess a certain je nais se quoi (a term I knew prior to arrival in francophone...
The Delaware Bay is a hotspot of sorts for spawning horseshoe crabs, and this can be witnessed during May and June during the peak of their spawning season. Their spawning coincides with the movement of ravenous migratory shorebirds along the Atlantic Flyway. When the temperature of the Delaware Bay's shallow,...
When the Academy of Natural Sciences' Associate Curator of Ornithology, Jason Weckstein, and Senior Exhibition Designer, Lauren Duguid, approached our Sales & Marketing team last autumn to see if we'd be up for loaning some of our cool gear to fill out their Technology Tracking display, we were super excited and...
This is a guest blog post authored by Sam Merker, research biologist, University of Connecticut, in Storrs, Connecticut. Since our post on American Bittern tracking research in Connecticut was published, we have received more than a few inquiries about how we capture a species that is known for being elusive, secretive,...
In affiliation with Min Huang of Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (CT DEEP) and Chris Elphick of the University of Connecticut, in March of 2022, we began fieldwork to tag Connecticut's American Bitterns (AMBI). Gathering information about AMBI's nesting biology, habitat distribution, and migratory behavior is both time-consuming and challenging. However, attaining annual cycle...
My research has focused on using novel telemetry methods to see if we can, for the first time, get a glimpse inside the life of individual hawk owls by monitoring their winter movements and microhabitat preferences in northern Minnesota and southern Manitoba.
In British Columbia, Turkey Vultures occupy the most extreme northwest portion of their broad range in the Americas, and they continue to expand. Gill Radcliffe wanted to learn more, and is using CTT's tech to study the local ecology, migratory movements, and health of Turkey Vultures in the Pacific Northwest.
The growing number of Motus-based projects and increased prevalence of receiver stations are a win-win. As it grows, the network captures ever-increasing amounts of data with high temporal and geographic precision over ever-increasing distances.
In winter 2022-23, Mike Lanzone and Dr. Trish Miller launched a research project in Arkansas. Their primary objective is capturing five Golden Eagles and attaching ES-500 GPS/GSM + Argos Hybrid tracking devices to each one in order to understand the wintering ecology of Golden Eagles in Arkansas.
