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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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Title Author Publication Date Publisher
  1. 2025-12
    Least Tern Abundance, Nesting Productivity, and Dispersal Between Nesting and On-and Off-River Foraging Sites in the Missouri National Recreational River
    Kyle Jorgensen
  2. 2026-02-27
    Western Snowy Plover and California Least Tern Monitoring in the San Francisco Bay Annual Report 2025
    Maddy Schwarz, Jeremy Reinhard, Josh Scullen
  3. Flammulated Owl (Psiloscops flammeolus) and its monitoring by the Motus system
    Aketzali Marinez Martinez
  4. 2026-03-11
    Multi-phase migration models for Nearctic–Neotropical migrant birds can inform conservation planning
    Ryan E Brodie, Nicholas J Bayly, Ruth E Bennett, Than J Boves, Anna Buckardt Thomas, William V Deluca, Kevin C Fraser, Ana M González, Jeffery L Larkin, Kurt M Ongman, Douglas W Raybuck, Amélie Roberto-Charron, Erin Simons-Legaard, Jessica Tatten, Scott Wilson, Amber M Roth
  5. 2021-03-20
    Roost sites of chimney swift (Chaetura pelagica) form large-scale spatial networks
    Courtney E. le Roux, Joseph J. Nocera
  6. 2021-11-15
    Exploring the Strategies of First Migration in the Subarctic-Nesting Shorebird, Calidris Alpina Hudsonia
    Victor Olek
  7. 2020-01-23
    Niche segregation among three sympatric species of swallows in southern Ontario
    Kaelyn H. Bumelis
  8. 2018-06-21
    Field test of an automated radio-telemetry system: tracking local space use of aerial insectivores
    Ariel K. Lenske, Joseph J. Nocera
  9. 2018-08-01
    Bat Use of an Island off the Coast of Massachusetts
    Zara R. Dowling, Danielle I. O'Dell
  10. 2019-09-13
    Automated VHF Radiotelemetry Revealed Site-Specific Differences in Fall Migration Strategies of Semipalmated Sandpipers on Stopover in the Gulf of Maine
    Rebecca L. Holberton, Philip D. Taylor, Lindsay M. Tudor, Kathleen M. O'Brien, Glen H. Mittelhauser, Ana Breit
    Site importance Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  11. 2018-10-26
    Assessment of Shorebird Migratory Fueling Physiology and Departure Timing in Relation to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Contamination in the Gulf of Mexico
    Kristin Bianchini, Christy A. Morrissey
  12. 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
    Industrial development Site importance Conservation Science and Practice
  13. 2021-11-01
    Shade coffee or native forest? Indicators of winter habitat quality for a long-distance migratory bird in the Colombian Andes
    Ana M. González, Nicholas J. Bayly, Scott Wilson, Keith A. Hobson
  14. 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
  15. 2022-02-03
    Migration tactics and connectivity of a Nearctic-Neotropical migratory shorebird
    John A. Herbert, David Mizrahi, Caz M. Taylor
  16. 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
  17. 2021
    Linking events across the annual cycle, in a Neotropical migratory songbird of conservation concern, the Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea)
    Elizabeth Ames
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 2024-08
    The role of prealternate moult in nonbreeding period carry-over effects in neotropical migratory songbirds
    Shae Turner
  21. 2025
    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
  22. 2019-12-29
    Biological and environmental factors related to communal roosting behavior of breeding Bank Swallow (Riparia riparia)
    Sarah Saldanha, Philip Taylor, Tara Imlay, Marty Leonard
    Colony attendance Site importance Avian Conservation and Ecology
  23. 2025
    Habitat use and local movement of staging Lesser Yellowlegs ( Tringa flavipes ) differ between coastal and inland habitat in Atlantic Canada
    Kathryn Danyk, Devin De Zwaan, Julie Paquet, Diana Hamilton
    Site importance Stopover duration Journal of Field Ornithology
  24. 2025-05
    Home range, habitat Use, and fall migration of Lewis’s woodpeckers in the Eastern Cascade Range, Oregon
    Cameron Piper
  25. 2018-02
    Tracking Migratory Bird Movements in the Gulf of Maine with Automated Radio Telemetry and Stable Hydrogen Isotope Markers
    Jennifer Smetzer

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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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