MOTUS Wildlife Tracking System
About Motus
When tracking wildlife with automated radio telemetry over vast distances, the challenge of deploying enough receivers to get detections grows exponentially. To remedy this, data can be shared between all researchers so that essentially everyone is sharing receivers. This greatly expands the potential for this technology, but it comes with the added responsibility of coordinating projects, detection data and metadata – that’s where Motus comes in.
What is Motus?
The Motus Wildlife Tracking System is an international collaborative network of researchers that use automated radio telemetry to simultaneously track hundreds of individuals of numerous species of birds, bats, and insects. The system enables a community of researchers, educators, organizations, and citizens to undertake impactful research and education on the ecology and conservation of migratory animals. When compared to other technologies, automated radio telemetry currently allows researchers to track the smallest animals possible, with high temporal and geographic precision, over great distances.
(Source: Motus.org)
MOTUS: Avon Lake Public Library
In 2023, Black River Audubon in partnership with Avon Lake Public Library and partially funded by a grant from the The Ohio Ornithology Society installed the first MOTUS tower in Lorain County.
(Tower has been temporarily taken down for building repair and will be reinstalled in early 2024.)
