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Follow the Broad-winged Hawk Migration During the summer of 2015, three Broad-winged Hawks were tagged with Argos Satellite Transmitters on their breeding grounds in Alberta,…

Follow the (almost) real-time movements of eight Long-billed Curlews tagged with Argos Satellite Transmitters October, 2014 through January 2015 along the Texas Coast. Each colored…

Exciting new collaboration! For the past year, scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute have been working with aviation and aerospace leaders, led by Airbus…

Project SNOWstorm is tracking snowy owls with solar-powered transmitters. Check out their Facebook and web pages for updates. Read more about tracking snowy owls in…

Every spring, approximately 100 black-crowned night herons show up at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo to initiate breeding –right here in our own back yard. Although…

Really cool research on swifts in flight! First evidence of a 200-day non-stop flight in a bird “… for several decades ornithologists have claimed that…

Challenges and prospects in the telemetry of insects Check out a new paper that reviews the history of insect telemetry, including radio, harmonic, and restricted…

Alpine Swifts Can Fly 200+ Days Without Landing. Ornithologists reported the longest recorded flight made by any bird — a non-stop, 200-day journey across the…

Check out the new Movebank feature. The Env-DATA System (Environmental Data Automated Track Annotation System) is a set of free tools on Movebank to help…

Pacific white sharks have a long way to go in spring -4000 km from California and Hawaii. A recent publication in the Proceedings of the…