Current and Future MOTUS Projects in the West

<div><div style='margin-bottom:3rem;'><div><div style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px; max-width:100%; display:inherit;'><span style='color:rgb(48, 78, 78); font-family:&quot;Noto Serif&quot;, serif; font-size:19.2px;'>This is part of the storymap, </span><a href='https://arcg.is/1K8bSD' style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size:15px;' target='_blank' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>&quot;MOTUS: Revolutionizing Data Collection, One Bird at a Time.&quot;</a></div><div style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px; max-width:100%; display:inherit;'><span style='color:rgb(48, 78, 78); font-family:&quot;Noto Serif&quot;, serif; font-size:19.2px;'>Some migratory shorebirds fly long distances. </span><span style='color:rgb(48, 78, 78); font-family:&quot;Noto Serif&quot;, serif; font-size:19.2px;'>But how do we know the paths that birds fly? How do we know where they stop, what they eat, and who their predators may be?</span></div><div><div><font color='#304e4e' face='Noto Serif, serif'><span style='font-size:19.2px;'>We track them.</span></font></div><div><font color='#304e4e' face='Noto Serif, serif'><span style='font-size:19.2px;'>The Motus Wildlife Tracking System is an international collaborative research network of automated radio-telemetry receiving stations.</span></font></div><div><font color='#304e4e' face='Noto Serif, serif'><span style='font-size:19.2px;'>Motus, which is Latin for movement, tracks insects, birds, bats, and other animals over the landscape, using radio technology. It's just one of the tools that biologists, conservationists, and others use to monitor wildlife. </span></font></div><div><font color='#304e4e' face='Noto Serif, serif'><span style='font-size:19.2px;'>Motus is but one of several technologies used to track birds. Another system, Argos, is based on sending signals to receiving stations on orbiting satellites, which then transmit them back to earth. Birds wearing these transmitters bounce highly accurate locations of their whereabouts off of receivers on satellites and down to researchers for decoding. However, these Argos transmitters require larger batteries, and are heavier than Motus transmitters. About 4500 birds are tracked every month with Argos.</span></font></div></div></div></div></div><div style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'><div style='margin-bottom:3rem;'></div></div>