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Title Author Publication Date Publisher
  1. 2023-12-08
    Irruptive fall migrations are linked to elevated breeding abundance but are not associated with body condition or stopover duration in Northern Saw-whet Owls
    Shawn R Craik, Amélie Doucet, Mathieu Manuel, Chloé Roy, Taylor M Brown, Emilie J Knighton, Dave Shutler, Randy F Lauff, Danielle Ethier, Amy-Lee Kouwenberg, Philip D Taylor
  2. 2020-08-20
    Hidden Long-Distance Movements by a Migratory Bird
    Nathan W. Cooper, Peter P. Marra
  3. 2024-01-01
    Peri-urban forest margins are important stopover sites for moult-migrating songbirds
    Vanessa Poirier, Kyle H. Elliott, Barbara Frei
  4. 2021
    Movements and Habitat Relationships of Virginia Rails and Soras within Impounded Coastal Wetlands of Northwest Ohio
    Nicole M. Hengst
  5. 2011-08-01
    Passerines use Nocturnal Flights for Landscape-Scale Movements during Migration Stopover
    Alexander M. Mills, Bethany G. Thurber, Stuart A. Mackenzie, Philip D. Taylor
  6. 2011-09-28
    Migratory stopover in the long-distance migrant silver-haired bat, Lasionycteris noctivagans
    Liam P. McGuire, Christopher G. Guglielmo, Stuart A. Mackenzie, Philip D. Taylor
  7. 2011-11-03
    Landscape movements of migratory birds and bats reveal an expanded scale of stopover
    Philip D. Taylor, Stuart A. Mackenzie, Bethany G. Thurber, Anna M. Calvert, Alex M. Mills, Liam P. McGuire, Christopher G. Guglielmo
  8. 2014-07-01
    Inland flights of young red-eyed vireos Vireo olivaceus in relation to survival and habitat in a coastal stopover landscape
    Bradley K. Woodworth, Charles M. Francis, Philip D. Taylor
  9. 2015
    Patterns and correlates of songbird movements at an ecological barrier during autumn migration assessed using landscape-and regional-scale automated radiotelemetry
    Bradley K. Woodworth, Greg W. Mitchell, D. Ryan Norris, Charles M. Francis, Philip D. Taylor
  10. 2020-08-08
    Stopover refueling, movement, and departure decisions in the White-throated Sparrow: the influence of intrinsic and extrinsic factors during spring migration
    Andrew T. Beauchamp, Christopher G. Guglielmo, Yolanda E. Morbey
  11. 2022-12-22
    Variation in resource use between adult and juvenile Semipalmated Sandpipers (Calidris pusilla) and use of physiological indicators for movement decisions highlights the importance of small staging sites during southbound migration in Atlantic Canada
    Rebeca C. Linhart, Diana J. Hamilton, Julie Paquet, Sara C. Bellefontaine, Siena Davis, Parker B. Doiron, Cheri L. Gratto-Trevor
    Site importance Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  12. 2022-02-03
    Migration tactics and connectivity of a Nearctic-Neotropical migratory shorebird
    John A. Herbert, David Mizrahi, Caz M. Taylor
  13. 2023-10-19
    Moult migrant Tennessee Warblers undergo extensive stopover in peri-urban forests of southern Quebec
    Vanessa Poirier, Barbara Frei, Mathilde Lefvert, Ana Morales, Kyle Hamish Elliott
  14. 2018-05-14
    Post-breeding movements of Swainson’s Thrush in Southern Nova Scotia
    Lucas Berrigan
  15. 2022-11-17
    Using the Motus System to Track Post-Breeding Dispersal of American Kestrels Nesting in Minnesota, USA
    Mark S. Martell, Althea A. Archer, Amber Burnette, Mary Lee, Frank Nicoletti, Kristin A. L. Hall
  16. 2022-01-31
    Insights on post-breeding movements from a northeastern population of Canada Warblers (Cardellina canadensis)
    Camille Bégin-Marchand, François Gagnon, Bruno Drolet, Jacques Ibarzabal, Junior Tremblay
  17. 2019-10-16
    Contrasting patterns of post-fledging movements of two sympatric warbler species with different life-history strategies
    Dominic A. Cormier, Philip D. Taylor
  18. 2018
    Multiscale Movements of a Threatened Population of Black-crowned Night-Herons in Lake Erie, Ohio Using Satellite and Automated Telemetry
    Laura J. Kearns
  19. 2019-04
    Tracking Offshore Occurrence of Common Terns, Endangered Roseate Terns, and Threatened Piping Plovers with VHF Arrays
    P. H. Loring, P. W. C. Paton, J. D. McLaren, H. Bai, R. Janaswamy, H. F. Goyert, C. R. Griffin, P. R. Sievert
    Biodiversity management Breeding and postbreeding dispersal Departure decisions Flight altitude Individual path choice Weather Sterling (VA): US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. OCS Study BOEM
  20. 2018-10-05
    The post-fledging survival and movements of juvenile Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica): an automated telemetry approach
    Dean R. Evans
  21. 2017-12-20
    Postbreeding dispersal and staging of Common and Arctic Terns throughout the western North Atlantic
    Pamela Loring, Robert Ronconi, Linda Welch, Philip Taylor, Mark Mallory
  22. 2015-12-01
    Adult and hatch-year blackpoll warblers exhibit radically different regional-scale movements during post-fledging dispersal
    J. Morgan Brown, Philip D. Taylor
  23. 2020-11-29
    Wandering woodpeckers: foray behavior in a social bird
    Sahas Barve, Natasha D. G. Hagemeyer, Russell E. Winter, Samuel D. Chamberlain, Walter D. Koenig, David W. Winkler, Eric L. Walters
  24. 2023-10-03
    Insights from attempts to track movement of Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger) fledglings in the southern Gulf of Mexico with automated telemetry and band resighting
    Kara L. Lefevre, Elizabeth Forys, Adam DiNuovo, Adam D. Smith
  25. 2023-03
    Nestling diet, quality, and post-fledging survival: Comparing two species of aerial insectivores in a gradient of agricultural intensity in Saskatchewan, Canada
    Ana Maria Diaz Bohorquez
  26. 2025-07-03
    Movetrack: An R package to model flight paths from radio-telemetry networks
    Georg Rüppel, Vera Brust, Heiko Schmaljohann, Thiemo Karwinkel
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  27. 2025-05
    Tracking Fall Migration with the Motus Wildlife Tracking System: The Fate of Window-struck and Captive-raised Passerines
    Cailin O'Connor
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  28. 2025-05
    Home range, habitat Use, and fall migration of Lewis’s woodpeckers in the Eastern Cascade Range, Oregon
    Cameron Piper
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  29. 2025-05-13
    Long-term monitoring of Arctic coastal ecology at the East Bay Mainland Research Station, in Qaqsauqtuuq Migratory Bird Sanctuary, Nunavut
    Doug MacNearney, Emma Davis, Jennie Rausch, Erica Nol, H. Grant Gilchrist, Josiah Nakoolak, Ken Abraham, Karel Allard, Sara Bellefontaine, Nik Clyde, Lisa Docken, Darryl B Edwards, Willow English, Scott Flemming, Anna Hargreaves, Christie Macdonald, Heather Mariash, Deborah E Perkins, Iain J Stenhouse, Paul A. Smith
    Arctic Science
  30. 2022-9-2
    Length of stay and departure strategies of Semipalmated Sandpipers (Calidris pusilla) during post-breeding migration in the upper Bay of Fundy, Canada
    Sarah G. Neima, Rebeca C. Linhart, Diana J. Hamilton, Cheri L. Gratto-Trevor, Julie Paquet
  31. 2022-01-20
    Using automated telemetry to identify population connectivity and migration phenology of Snowy Plovers breeding in the Southern Great Plains
    Kristen M. Heath-Acre, Clint W. Boal, Daniel P. Collins, Warren C. Conway, William P. Johnson
  32. 2021
    Linking events across the annual cycle, in a Neotropical migratory songbird of conservation concern, the Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea)
    Elizabeth Ames
  33. 2019-09-03
    Tracking landscape-scale movements of Snow Buntings and weather-driven changes in flock composition during the temperate winter
    Emily Anne McKinnon, Marie-Pier Laplante, Oliver Love, Kevin C. Fraser, Stuart Mackenzie, François Vézina
    Activity patterns Site importance Weather Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  34. 2024-03-16
    Pre-migration behaviour and survival of juvenile Wood Thrushes (Hylocichla mustelina) in a fragmented forest landscape
    Susan Mary Hayes
  35. 2025-05-06
    Age-related differences in fall migration timing and performance of juvenile and adult Wood Thrushes departing from a breeding site
    Brendan P. Boyd, Sue M. Hayes, Anna Agazzi Migotto, Bridget J. M. Stutchbury
  36. 2025-05
    Examining the Predictors of White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) Spring Departure Date
    Josh Davidson
  37. 2025-03-31
    Sufficient food is critical for a long-distant migratory shorebird to advance migration phenology
    Thomas Lameris, Allert Bijleveld, Roeland Bom, Julia Karagicheva, Hidde Kressin, Eva Kok, Sander Lagerveld, Luc de Monte, Barbara Helm, Theunis Piersma
  38. 2025-03-17
    Using motus automated telemetry to quantify habitat use and movement in a Far Eastern Curlew within the Hunter Estuary, NSW, Australia
    Andrea S. Griffin, Callum Gapes, Louise A. Williams, Mattea Taylor, Rob Kyte, Greg Little, Judith Little
    Site importance The Whistler
  39. 2025-02-25
    Sex-specific variation in breeding-ground departure decisions and detection rates during southbound migration in West Atlantic Flyway Whimbrels (Numenius phaeopus)
    Anne N. M. A. Ausems, Hannah MacKellar, Glen S. Brown, Erica Nol
  40. 2025-02-17
    Close encounters: behavioral responses of migrating songbirds to the perceived risk of predation
    Claire E Nemes, Andrea M Lindsay, Lucas W DeGroote, Emily B Cohen, Emilie Snell-Rood
  41. 2025
    Insights from a decade of using the Motus network to track boreal bird species from Observatoire d’oiseaux de Tadoussac, Québec to temperate and tropical wintering grounds
    Jacob Walker, Jean-François Therrien, Camille Bégin-Marchand, Pascal Côté, Alexandre Terrigeol, François Gagnon, Junior A. Tremblay
  42. 2025
    Developing Research Tools for Demographic Study of Rhynchophanes mccownii (Thick-billed Longspurs)
    Megan M, Ring, Rose J. Swift, Michael J. Anteau, Lawrence D. Igl, Mark E. Seamans, Scott G. Somershoe, Jay A. VonBank, John M. Yeiser, Garrett J. MacDonald
  43. 2024-12-02
    Lengths of Stay and Stopover Strategies of Western Sandpipers During Migration at Two Sites in British Columbia, Canada
    Anne L. Blondin, Mark C. Drever, Scott A. Flemming, Wendy E. Easton, Mark Maftei, Yuri Zharikov, Nils Warnock, Erica Nol
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  47. 2015-03-03
    Breeding ground dispersal and fall migratory movements of Ipswich Sparrows (Passerculus sandwichensis princeps)
    Zoe Crysler
  48. 2014-12-31
    Bats on a Budget: Torpor-Assisted Migration Saves Time and Energy
    Liam P. McGuire, Kristin A. Jonasson, Christopher G. Guglielmo, Paul A. Bartell
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  52. 2016
    Atlantic Flyway Review: Region III (Western Ridge) Fall 2015- The Arboretum at Penn State
    Nick T. Kerlin
    North American Bird Bander
  53. 2015-11-13
    The effects of wind and fuel stores on stopover departure behavior across a migratory barrier
    Bryant C. Dossman, Greg W. Mitchell, D. Ryan Norris, Philip D. Taylor, Christopher G. Guglielmo, Stephen N. Matthews, Paul G. Rodewald
  54. 2015-12-07
    Shorebird use of western Hudson Bay near the Nelson River during migration, with a focus on Red Knot.
    Ann E. McKellar, R. Kenyon Ross, R.I.Guy Morrison, Lawrence J. Niles, Ronald R. Porter, Joanna Burger, David J. Newstead, Amanda D. Dey, Paul A. Smith
  55. 2015-08-15
    Automated telemetry reveals age specific differences in flight duration and speed are driven by wind conditions in a migratory songbird
    Greg W. Mitchell, Bradley K. Woodworth, Philip D. Taylor, D. Ryan Norris
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  58. 2016-10-17
    Towards a conceptual framework for explaining variation in nocturnal departure time of songbird migrants
    Florian Müller, Philip D. Taylor, Sissel Sjöberg, Rachel Muheim, Arseny Tsvey, Stuart A. Mackenzie, Heiko Schmaljohann
    Movement Ecology
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  63. 2016-11-23
    Experienced migratory songbirds do not display goal-ward orientation after release following a cross-continental displacement: an automated telemetry study
    Dmitry Kishkinev, Dominik Heyers, Bradley K. Woodworth, Greg W. Mitchell, Keith A. Hobson, D. Ryan Norris
  64. 2016-11-01
    Topography of the Andes Mountains shapes the wintering distribution of a migratory bird
    Ana M. González-Prieto, Nicholas J. Bayly, Gabriel J. Colorado, Keith A. Hobson
    Migratory connectivity Diversity and Distributions
  65. 2016-10-8
    A field test of the effects of body composition analysis by quantitative magnetic resonance on songbird stopover behaviour
    Lisa V. Kennedy, Yolanda E. Morbey, Stuart A. Mackenzie, Philip D. Taylor, Christopher G. Guglielmo
  66. 2016-06
    Prevalence of Disjunct Roosting in Nesting Bank Swallows (Riparia riparia)
    C. Myles Falconer, Greg W. Mitchell, Philip D. Taylor, Douglas C. Tozer
  67. 2016-03-24
    Animal migration: Dispersion explains declines
    Richard A. Fuller
    Nature
  68. 2016-01-21
    Differential fall migratory routes of adult and juvenile Ipswich Sparrows (Passerculus sandwichensis princeps)
    Zoe J. Crysler, Robert A. Ronconi, Philip D. Taylor
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  71. 2017
    The Motus Wildlife Tracking System: a collaborative research network to enhance the understanding of wildlife movement
    Philip D. Taylor, Tara L. Crewe, Stuart A. Mackenzie, Denis Lepage, Yves Aubry, Zoe Crysler, George Finney, Charles M. Francis, Christopher G. Guglielmo, Diana J. Hamilton, Rebecca L. Holberton, Pamela H. Loring, Greg W. Mitchell, D. Ryan Norris, Julie Paquet, Robert A. Ronconi, Jennifer R. Smetzer, Paul A. Smith, Linda J. Welch, Bradley K. Woodworth
    Avian Conservation and Ecology
  72. 2017-01-05
    What’s killing the world’s shorebirds?
    Margaret Munro
    Nature News
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  77. 2017-01
    Stopover movement patterns by Blackpoll and Canada Warblers across southeastern Canada during fall migration: an automated radio-telemetry study
    Alain Parada Isada
  78. 2017-01-05
    Evaluation of sex differences in the stopover behavior and postdeparture movements of wood-warblers
    Yolanda E. Morbey, Christopher G. Guglielmo, Philip D. Taylor, Ivan Maggini, Jessica Deakin, Stuart A. Mackenzie, J. Morgan Brown, Lin Zhao, David Stephens
  79. 2017-03
    Effects of Extreme Tidal Events on Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla) Migratory Stopover in the Bay of Fundy, Canada
    Hilary A. R. Mann, Diana J. Hamilton, Julie M. Paquet, Cheri L. Gratto-Trevor, Sarah G. Neima
  80. 2017-02-01
    Comparing Satellite and Digital Radio Telemetry to Estimate Space and Habitat Use of American Oystercatchers (Haematopus palliatus) in Massachusetts, USA
    Pamela H. Loring, Curtice R. Griffin, Paul R. Sievert, Caleb S. Spiegel
  81. 2017-02-27
    The Effects of Sex, Energy, and Environmental Conditions on the Movement Ecology of Migratory Bats
    Kristin A. Jonasson
  82. 2017-01-11
    Corticosterone and timing of migratory departure in a songbird
    Cas Eikenaar, Florian Müller, Clara Leutgeb, Sven Hessler, Konstantin Lebus, Philip D. Taylor, Heiko Schmaljohann
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  87. 2017-11-15
    Body condition explains migratory performance of a long-distance migrant
    Sjoerd Duijns, Lawrence J. Niles, Amanda Dey, Yves Aubry, Christian Friis, Stephanie Koch, Alexandra M. Anderson, Paul A. Smith
  88. 2017-03-31
    A Low-Cost Technique for Radio-Tracking Wildlife Using a Small Standard Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
    Junior A. Tremblay, André Desrochers, Yves Aubry, Paul Pace, David M. Bird
    Journal of Unmanned Vehicle Systems
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  92. 2017-11-20
    Testing traditional assumptions about regional migration in bats
    Jennifer J. Krauel, Liam P. McGuire, Justin G. Boyles
  93. 2017-09
    Modelling Bird Migration with Motus Data and Bayesian State-Space Models
    Justin Baldwin
  94. 2017-08
    Behavioural Mechanisms of Protandrous Spring Migration in a Nearctic-Neotropical Songbird
    Jessica E. Deakin
  95. 2017-08-05
    Fall migratory departure decisions and routes of Blackpoll Warblers Setophaga striata and Red-eyed Vireos Vireo olivaceus at a coastal barrier in the Gulf of Maine
    Jennifer R. Smetzer, David I. King, Philip D. Taylor
  96. 2017-07-03
    Migratory blackpoll warblers (Setophaga striata) make regional-scale movements that are not oriented toward their migratory goal during fall
    J. Morgan Brown, Philip D. Taylor
  97. 2017-06-13
    Fuel loads acquired at a stopover site influence the pace of intercontinental migration in a boreal songbird
    Camila Gomez, Nicholas J. Bayly, D. Ryan Norris, Stuart A. Mackenzie, Kenneth V. Rosenberg, Philip D. Taylor, Keith A. Hobson, Carlos Daniel Cadena
  98. 2017-05-15
    A Markov model for planning and permitting offshore wind energy: A case study of radio-tracked terns in the Gulf of Maine, USA
    Alexana Cranmer, Jennifer R. Smetzer, Linda Welch, Erin Baker
    Biodiversity management Journal of Environmental Management
  99. 2018
    Movement patterns of Semipalmated Sandpipers (Calidris pusilla) and Semipalmated Plovers (Charadrius semipalmatus) within eastern New Brunswick
    Erica A. Geldart
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  100. 2018
    The Foraging habits and fatterning rates of Semipalmated Sandpipers (Calidris pusilla) and Semipalmated Plovers (Charadrius semipalmatus) on the Acadian Peninsula
    Hannah Mackellar
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