Monday, March 14, will be the next monthly meeting of the Cayuga Bird Club. Mark Deutschlander will be giving his presentation, "The Promise of the Motus Wildlife Tracking System at 7:30 pm. Zoom meeting registration: tinyurl.com/cbc2022-03Advances in remote sensing and tracking technology have provided opportunities to study migratory songbirds in ways researchers only dreamed of decades ago. Limited to banding (capture/recapture data) and semi-natural laboratory studies, ornithologists have been able to elucidate many mechanisms of orientation and understand basic migratory behavior and ecology. Tracking and remote sensing, however, are providing new insights into migratory behavior, pathways, and ecology. The Motus Wildlife Tracking System, which uses radio-tracking technology to monitor nano-tagged birds, is critical tool for studying migration in the Americas. Mark will review some of the ways Motus has allowed researchers to increase our knowledge about songbird migration, and he will introduce new “local” Motus projects on Blackpoll Warblers and Gray Catbirds. Motus technology not only provides basic data about the timing and pathways of migration and stopover behavior but promises to be a new and exciting tool to elucidate migratory mechanisms to corroborate more traditional “lab” based studies of migratory behaviors. Mark Deutschlander is a Professor of Biology at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Mark has long been interested in animal orientation and navigation, particular the use of magnetic and celestial cues (i.e., UV polarized light) by migratory birds and other organisms. He has studied sensory biology and orientation in Eastern red-spotted newts, Siberian Hamsters, salmonids, and a variety of songbirds, including Australian Silvereyes and North American species such as Bobolinks, White-throated sparrows and Catharus thrushes. Recently Mark’s has expanded his research to study migratory night calls and the energetics of migration in parulids. Mark is currently the President of the Braddock Bay Bird Observatory, where he collaborates on Motus work and other research, and he is a Past President of the Wilson Ornithological Society, the second largest and second oldest academic society dedicated to the study of birds. Cayuga Bird Club meetings start at 7:30 pm on the second Monday of each month, September through June, and are open to the public. Each virtual meeting will begin with the speaker's presentation, followed by club business. Colleen RichardsCorresponding SecretaryCayuga Bird Club --
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