What is Motus?
Motus is an international research community working together to study the movement and behaviour of birds, bats, and insects. These animals carry miniaturized tags that transmit information to stations placed across the landscape. This powerful conservation tool transforms how we understand and protect biodiversity.
Motus in Action
Motus provides novel insights on animal movement and behaviour that is fundamental to their conservation.
Use Motus for Research
Motus drives research by providing innovative approaches to the use of technology to study movement and behaviour of birds, bats, and insects.
Contribute to Motus’ Success
Motus is a diverse community of researchers, practitioners, companies, organizations and people working cooperatively towards shared science and conservation objectives. Everyone is welcome to support and participate.
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Movetrack: An R package to model flight paths from radio-telemetry networks
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Small tags, big discoveries: Celebrating 10 years of the Motus Wildlife Tracking System driving conservation through collaboration
Spring is in the air – and so are the birds. Hundreds of migratory spe
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Conservation technology helps northern communities track birds
This spring, Birds Canada was proud to not only be invited back to
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Birds Canada and Canadian University partners receive over $3.1 million to study and conserve migratory animals in peril
We’ve lost nearly one in three birds in North America since 1970 –
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Building Capacity in Latin America to Drive Conservation
Many bird species that breed in Canada migrate through or spend the no
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Tracking Dunlin in the Fraser Estuary
In 2020, Birds Canada started a project tracking the movements of Dunl
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Neonics Harm the Birds and the Bees
Results of a new study published Sept. 13 in the journal Science indic
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