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Peer-reviewed publications by Motus collaborators which have used Motus data.

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Whenever Motus data is used for purposes outside of the Motus platform, projects, collaborators and organizations must be properly acknowledged. Project citations should be used anytime Motus data is used or displayed outside of the Motus platform (see below for more information). Please review the Motus Collaboration Policy for more information regarding data use, project citation and acknowledgement.

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2024-07
Motus as a Tool for Offshore Wind Assessment and Monitoring: a Knowledge Review

Kianna Leung, Erica A. Geldart

Industrial development -
2024-05
Coastal and offshore movements of Nathusius' pipistrelle during autumn migration

Sander Lagerveld, Pepijn de Vries, Bart Noort, Karina Stienstra, Cor Sonneveld, Tamara Vallina, Martijn Keur, Josien Steenbergen

Ecological barrier Individual path choice Industrial development -
2020
Predictable shorebird departure patterns from a staging site can inform collision risks and mitigation of wind energy developments

Jessica E. Howell, Ann E. McKellar, Richard H. M. Espie, Christy A. Morrissey

Biodiversity management Flight orientation Flight speed Industrial development Migratory phenology Ibis
2022-03-25
Movement and habitat use of non-breeding Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla) at the Banco dos Cajuais in Northeast Brazil

Rebeca C. Linhart, Diana J. Hamilton, Julie Paquet, J. Onofre N. Monteiro, Gabriela P. Ramires, Jason A. Mobley

Biodiversity management Industrial development Site importance Conservation Science and Practice
2025-03-05
Spatial and species-specific variation in lake-crossing behavior in the Great Lakes region influences collision risk with offshore wind development

Zoe O Korpi, Stephen N Matthews, Matthew B Shumar, Molly E McDermott, David Russell, Lucas W DeGroote, Ryan Jacob, Mark Shieldcastle, Christopher M Tonra

Industrial development Migratory connectivity Ornithological Applications
2024-12-18
Migratory movements of bats are shaped by barrier effects, sex-biased timing and the adaptive use of winds

Sander Lagerveld, Pepijn De Vries, Jane Harris, Sue Parsons, Elisabeth Debusschere, Ommo Hüppop, Vera Brust, Heiko Schmaljohann

Ecological barrier Flight altitude Flight orientation Flight speed Industrial development Weather Movement Ecology
2024
User documentation for the Stochastic Collision Risk Assessment for Movement (SCRAM 2)

A Gilbert, E. M. Adams, H. F. Goyert, J Gulka, P. H. Loring, J. E. F. Stepanuk, K. A. Williams

Industrial development -
2024
First Visual Record of a Hoary Bat (Lasiurus cinereus) over the Open Ocean

William L. Kennerley, Lisa T. Ballance, Rachael A. Orben, Leigh G. Torres, Donald I. Solick

Ecological barrier Industrial development Journal of North American Bat Research Notes
2024
Lake-crossing behavior of migratory songbirds: Assessing potential collision risk with offshore wind on Lake Erie

Zoe Olivia Korpi

Ecological barrier Flight orientation Industrial development -
2023
Are offshore wind farms in the Netherlands a potential threat for coastal populations of noctule?

Sander Lagerveld, Kees Mostert

Activity patterns Individual path choice Industrial development Lutra
2023-07-04
The urge to breed early: Similar responses to environmental conditions in short- and long-distance migrants during spring migration

Georg Rüppel, Ommo Hüppop, Heiko Schmaljohann, Vera Brust

Departure decisions Ecological barrier Industrial development Stopover duration Weather Ecology and Evolution
2020-06-22
Supportive wind conditions influence offshore movements of Atlantic Coast Piping Plovers during fall migration

Pamela H. Loring, James D. McLaren, Holly F. Goyert, Peter W. C. Paton

Biodiversity management Departure decisions Flight altitude Flight orientation Flight speed Industrial development The Condor
2019-11-17
Summer movements of a radio-tagged Hoary Bat ( Lasiurus cinereus ) captured in southwestern Ontario

Derek Morningstar, Al Sandilands

Displacement Individual path choice Industrial development The Canadian Field-Naturalist
2019-10-31
To cross or not to cross – thrushes at the German North Sea coast adapt flight and routing to wind conditions in autumn

Vera Brust, Bianca Michalik, Ommo Hüppop

Departure decisions Individual path choice Industrial development Weather Movement Ecology
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 Industrial development Weather Sterling (VA): US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. OCS Study BOEM
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 Industrial development Journal of Environmental Management
2023-06-14
Fall migration, oceanic movement, and site residency patterns of eastern red bats (Lasiurus borealis) on the mid-Atlantic Coast

Michael C. True, Katherine M. Gorman, Hila Taylor, Richard J. Reynolds, W. Mark Ford

Activity patterns Biodiversity management Departure decisions Ecological barrier Individual path choice Industrial development Weather Movement Ecology
2023
New insights into the influence of turbines on the behaviour of migrant birds: implications for predicting impacts of offshore wind developments on wildlife

J. Robinson Willmott, G. Forcey, M. Vukovich

Biodiversity management Industrial development Journal of Physics: Conference Series
2022-11
US Offshore Wind Synthesis of Environmental Effects Research (SEER) Project

Rebecca Green, Mark Severy, Cris Hein, Hayley Farr, Frank Oteri

Industrial development -
2023-01-04
Distributing transmitters to maximize population-level representativeness in automated radio telemetry studies of animal movement

Juliet S. Lamb, Pamela H. Loring, Peter W. C. Paton

Industrial development Movement Ecology
2022-08-19
Offshore and coastline migration of radio-tagged Nathusius' pipistrelles

Petra Bach, Christian C. Voigt, Matthias Göttsche, Lothar Bach, Vera Brust, Reinhold Hill, Ommo Hüppop, Sander Lagerveld, Heiko Schmaljohann, Antje Seebens-Hoyer

Biodiversity management Individual path choice Industrial development Conservation Science and Practice
2021-10-13
Underestimated scale of songbird offshore migration across the south-eastern North Sea during autumn

Vera Brust, Ommo Hüppop

Migration strategy Ecological barrier Flight orientation Individual path choice Industrial development Journal of Ornithology
2021-01
Tracking Movements of Migratory Shorebirds in the US Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf Region

P. H. Loring, A. K. Lenske, J. D. McLaren, M. Aikens, A. M. Anderson, Y. Aubrey, E. Dalton, A. Dey, C. Friis, D. Hamilton

Biodiversity management Departure decisions Flight altitude Flight orientation Individual path choice Industrial development Weather -
2018-04-25
Automated telemetry reveals staging behavior in a declining migratory passerine

James R. Wright, Luke L. Powell, Christopher M. Tonra

Migration strategy Flight distance Flight speed Industrial development Migratory phenology Site fidelity Stopover duration The Auk
2018-02
Tracking Migratory Bird Movements in the Gulf of Maine with Automated Radio Telemetry and Stable Hydrogen Isotope Markers

Jennifer Smetzer

Migration strategy Activity patterns Colony attendance Flight orientation Individual path choice Industrial development Site importance Stopover duration -

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Project citation format:

[Institution | Collaborators]. [Project Name and Number]. [Years of project activity]. Data accessed from Motus Wildlife Tracking System, Birds Canada. Available: https://motus.org/. Accessed: [Date].

*Institutions or collaborators, project name and number, and years of project activity can be identified through project profiles on the Motus website.

Collaborators are encouraged to acknowledge Motus in any written work, popular or peer-reviewed publications, oral presentations, social media, or websites. Collaborators are also encouraged to acknowledge Motus as a program of Birds Canada in close collaboration with a diverse network of organizations, businesses and individuals.

If Motus tools (e.g. Motus website, visualizations, output tables) are used in your analysis or communications, the citation should be as follows:

Motus Wildlife Tracking System. [Year]. Birds Canada, Port Rowan, Ontario. Available: https://motus.org. Accessed: [Date].

Motus RBook citation:

Birds Canada (2024). motus: Fetch and use data from the Motus Wildlife Tracking System. https://motusWTS.github.io/motus/.

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