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

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2024-02
Importance of Demographics and Vital Rates to Cavity-Nesting Waterfowl in the Lower Saint John River of New Brunswick, Canada

Jared Sonnleitner

Survival -
2023-07-10
Spring migration patterns of red knots in the Southeast United States disentangled using automated telemetry

Adam D. Smith, Felicia J. Sanders, Kara L. Lefevre, Janet M. Thibault, Kevin S. Kalasz, Maina C. Handmaker, Fletcher M. Smith, Tim S. Keyes

Flight speed Individual path choice Site importance Stopover duration Weather Scientific Reports
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

Departure decisions Ecological barrier Flight orientation Individual path choice Site importance Journal of Avian Biology
2018-05-09
Prolonged stopover and consequences of migratory strategy on local-scale movements within a regional songbird staging area

Jennifer Smetzer, David King

Migration strategy Migratory speed 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 -
2024-10-08
Examining Environmental and Life History Correlates of Winter and Migratory Movements in a Nomadic Arctic-Breeding Passerine

Samuelle Simard-Provençal

Departure decisions Weather -
2019-02-28
Stopover departure behavior and flight orientation of spring-migrant Yellow-rumped Warblers (Setophaga coronata) experimentally exposed to methylmercury

Chad L. Seewagen, Yanju Ma, Yolanda E. Morbey, Christopher G. Guglielmo

Contaminants Departure decisions Flight orientation Migratory physiology Stopover duration Journal of Ornithology
2018-05-10
Potential age differences in the migratory behaviour of a nocturnal songbird migrant during autumn and spring

Heiko Schmaljohann, Florian Müller, Thomas Klinner, Cas Eikenaar

Departure decisions Flight orientation Migratory phenology Journal of Avian Biology
2020-07-08
A quasi-experimental approach using telemetry to assess migration-strategy-specific differences in the decision-making processes at stopover

Heiko Schmaljohann, Thomas Klinner

Body condition Departure decisions Flight orientation Migratory physiology Stopover duration BMC Ecology
2023-06-22
Elevational differences in migration phenology of Lazuli Buntings do not support selection-based hypotheses for protandry

Kim Savides, Clark S Rushing

Migratory phenology Ornithology
2022-05
Characterizing the Migratory Phenology and Routes of the Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena) in Northern Utah

Kim Savides

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2023
South Atlantic Bight – a final stop for Ruddy Turnstones migrating to the Arctic

Felicia Sanders, Adam Smith, Janet Thibault, Deborah Carter, Maina Handmaker, Fletcher Smith

Migratory speed Site importance Stopover duration Weather Journal of Field Ornithology
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
2023-02-14
An ecologist's introduction to continuous-time multi-state models for capture-recapture data

Clark S. Rushing

Journal of Animal Ecology
2023-02-08
Departure, routing and landing decisions of long-distance migratory songbirds in relation to weather

Georg Rüppel, Ommo Hüppop, Sander Lagerveld, Heiko Schmaljohann, Vera Brust

Departure decisions Individual path choice Landing decisions Stopover duration Weather Royal Society Open Science
2025-07-03
Movetrack: An R package to model flight paths from radio-telemetry networks

Georg Rüppel, Vera Brust, Heiko Schmaljohann, Thiemo Karwinkel

Individual path choice -
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
2023-06-21
Avian monitoring results for two years of study at a newly recognized spring migration concentration point in the Angeles National Forest, Los Angeles County, California

Tania Romero, Lauren Hill, Jayde Blair, Walter Sakai, C. John Ralph

North American Bird Bander
2023-04-21
Age and Sex Differences in Stopover Behaviours and Flight Performance in Black-throated Blue Warblers

Patricia Rokitnicki

Departure decisions Flight speed Individual path choice Migration range Stopover duration Weather -
2023-01-01
Relationship between bats and prairie-dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) colonies in Western Kansas

Mario Rodriguez

Activity patterns -
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

Survival -
2023-10-19
Rangewide migratory connectivity and migration ecology in Swainson's Warblers (Limnothlypis swainsonii) derived from multisensor geolocators

Garrett Rhyne

Individual path choice Migratory phenology -
2022-05-01
Cerulean Warbler Full Annual Cycle Ecology: Filling in Critical Knowledge Gaps

Douglas Raybuck

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2018
3.3. 2 The Conservation and Management of the North American Black Tern (Chlidonias niger surinamensis) in Michigan

Caleb Putnam, Stephanie Beilke, Erin Rowan

Migration strategy Migratory connectivity Survival -
2022
Songbird Behavior and Conservation in the Anthropocene

Darren S. Proppe

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2024-01-01
Peri-urban forest margins are important stopover sites for moult-migrating songbirds

Vanessa Poirier, Kyle H. Elliott, Barbara Frei

Home range and territory Site importance Stopover duration Urban landscapes Journal for Nature Conservation
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

Departure decisions Home range and territory Migratory phenology Site importance Stopover duration Urban landscapes Canadian Journal of Zoology
2025-05
Home range, habitat Use, and fall migration of Lewis’s woodpeckers in the Eastern Cascade Range, Oregon

Cameron Piper

Home range and territory Migration range Site importance -
2023-01-03
The Big Picture and Future Directions for Urban Bat Conservation and Research

Krista J. Patriquin, Lauren Moretto, M. Brock Fenton, Lauren Moretto, Joanna L. Coleman, Christina M. Davy, M. Brock Fenton, Carmi Korine, Krista J. Patriquin

Urban landscapes -
2017-01
Stopover movement patterns by Blackpoll and Canada Warblers across southeastern Canada during fall migration: an automated radio-telemetry study

Alain Parada Isada

Departure decisions Stopover duration Weather -
2020-02-07
Stopover departure decisions in songbirds: do long-distance migrants depart earlier and more independently of weather conditions than medium-distance migrants?

Florian Packmor, Thomas Klinner, Bradley K. Woodworth, Cas Eikenaar, Heiko Schmaljohann

Departure decisions Migratory physiology Stopover duration Weather Movement Ecology
2021-11-15
Exploring the Strategies of First Migration in the Subarctic-Nesting Shorebird, Calidris Alpina Hudsonia

Victor Olek

Biodiversity management Departure decisions Displacement Migratory phenology Site importance -
2025-05
Tracking Fall Migration with the Motus Wildlife Tracking System: The Fate of Window-struck and Captive-raised Passerines

Cailin O'Connor

Biodiversity management Survival Urban landscapes -
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

Activity patterns Urban landscapes Behavioral Ecology
2023-11-16
Springing forward: Migrating songbirds catch up with the start of spring in North America

Claire E. Nemes, Peter P. Marra, Theodore J. Zenzal Jr, Samantha A. Collins, Bryant C. Dossman, Alexander R. Gerson, Camila Gómez, Ana M. González, Mariamar Gutierrez Ramirez, Sarah A. Hamer, Joseph Marty, Phillip L. Vasseur, Emily B. Cohen

Flight speed Migratory phenology Migratory speed Journal of Animal Ecology
2023
Moving the goalposts: migratory birds in a changing world

Claire E. Nemes

Activity patterns Flight speed Migratory phenology Migratory speed Urban landscapes -
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

Departure decisions Site importance Stopover duration Weather Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
2020-04-22
Intra- and interannual regional fidelity of Semipalmated Sandpipers (Calidris pusilla) during migratory stopover in the upper Bay of Fundy, Canada

Sarah Neima, Diana Hamilton, Cheri Gratto-Trevor, Julie Paquet

Activity patterns Biodiversity management Site fidelity Site importance Avian Conservation and Ecology
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

Departure decisions Movement Ecology
2018-03-05
Nocturnal departure timing in songbirds facing distinct migratory challenges

Florian Müller, Cas Eikenaar, Zoe J. Crysler, Philip D. Taylor, Heiko Schmaljohann

Departure decisions Departure preparation Ecological barrier Flight distance Flight orientation The Journal of Animal Ecology
2018-06-22
Does the length of the night affect the timing of nocturnal departures in a migratory songbird?

Florian Müller, Georg Rüppel, Heiko Schmaljohann

Departure decisions Departure preparation Animal Behaviour
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
2025
In the clear: weather drives the northward movement of American Tree Sparrows ( Spizelloides arborea ) as spring progresses

Yolanda Morbey, Kevin Hannah, Jeffrey Costa, Jackson Kusack, Stuart Mackenzie

Migratory phenology Journal of Field Ornithology
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

Activity patterns Flight speed Individual path choice Migratory phenology Stopover duration Behavioral Ecology
2020-09-15
Evening locomotor activity during stopover differs on pre-departure and departure days in free-living songbirds

Yolanda E. Morbey, Andrew T. Beauchamp, Simon J. Bonner, Greg W. Mitchell

Activity patterns Departure preparation Journal of Avian Biology
2022-04-08
Reduced diurnal activity and increased stopover duration by molting Swainson’s Thrushes

Ana Morales, Barbara Frei, Greg W Mitchell, Camille Bégin-Marchand, Kyle H Elliott

Activity patterns Departure decisions Migratory speed Stopover duration Survival Weather Ornithology
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

Departure decisions Flight distance Flight orientation Flight speed Migratory phenology Weather Movement Ecology
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

Departure decisions Home range and territory Stopover duration The Condor
2020
Marine Protected Areas: expanding, but under protected

Aroha Miller

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2020-08-25
Are movements of daytime and nighttime passerine migrants as different as day and night?

Bianca Michalik, Vera Brust, Ommo Hüppop

Migration strategy Departure decisions Migratory phenology Stopover duration Ecology and Evolution

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