Motus fest 2021

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Questions generated by watching talks:
- Ask Andy if there is a Southern station we could partner with that needs data on movement through central lake erie
- Really great video showing how motus is used in bird conservation that focuses on Kirtland's warblers.  We have picked up birds from this project on our towers
  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMS0YIfiovs

Heiko Scmaljohan in Germany
 * Lots of European Motus projects
 * How is it organized?
   * Not central, but Project based and lots of crosstalk
   * Funding is project based at the moment
 * Need to establish stations at critical points
 * Getting animal welfare permits are tough
 * due to low density, low data per $ investment
 * Lots of future plans
 
Christian Friis with Canadian Wildlife service
 * Representing Northern Canadian Motus collaborators
 * Very broad rangeing projects throughout north
 * Northern local trappers would possibly be able to host towers
 * Red knot
   * Towers have been erected based on Red Knot geolocator tag data
   * Have identified critical migratory bottlenecks
 * Semipalmated sandpipers
 * Different stations often pick up very specific species of shorebirds
 * Data on air speed and travel rates
 * bird air speeds varied with presence of predators
 
Matt Webb with Bird Conservancy of the Rockies
* Working on Motus for 6 years
* started with PARC and Northeast Motus Collaborative
* One member of western group got Motus to be part of Western Partners in flight
  * Western planning map
* Innermountain west collaboration
* great projects in N. Canada to study important bird conservation efforts

Sarah Kendrick at Missouri
 * organized around the central North American flyway
 * Midwest migration Network
  * broaden the use of motus in our region and wintering ground
 * Plan includes goals for lines across lakefrong and in Southern US
 * Gotten grants for central america in grants for expanding motus here
 * largely grant based but with lots of donations
 * Ask FWS offices for end of year funding !!!
 * ASZ is interested in contributing to expansion of motus
 * Dreams
  * trying to get funding for regionwide coordinator
  * Search for "Hidden long-distance movements by a migratory bird" Youtube
 
Chris Tonra
* Warbler stopover project
* Array in western basin of lake Erie
* Studied crossing decision making
* Rusty blackbird stopover behavior
  * used motus at different scales
* most birds cross lake erie and most at night
* black crowned night heron work is now finished (?)
  * tagging nestlings
  * post fledging, survival, and recruitment
* Virginia and Sora rails
  * breeders and migrants overlap
* Blue jays for overwinter survival
* motus tags in nuts to watch caching of nuts
  * will blue jays enhance Chestnut reintroduction
* white throated sparrow seasonal interactions
  * lake crossing work coming up
  * want to try to tag further south

Scott Weidensal from Northeastern Motus Collaborative
* excludes us in his maps
* Common nighthawks and eastern whiporwills
* Swainson's thrush
* blabirds
* Horned larks and Pipits
* Natural nest site use by Chimney swifts
  * found roosts in hollow trees near tagging locations
* We are generally left off of all Northeastern Motus Collaborative maps
* Many of the detected birds are never detected on the ground

Terry Cook with Southeast Motus Network
* Growth throughout the Southeast
* Arkansas and Alabama still lack stations
* Lots of emphasis has been on coastal stations
* very small fraction cover both 166 and 434

Julian Garcia Walther
* PhD work focused on finding other birds that share wintering and migratory habitat with Red Knot
* Found the researchers working on those birds to help magnify the ability to search for money
* 15-25 station, all dual mode
* Fence across the narrowest point in the Mexican isthmus
* There is some wind farm money

Nick Bayly with Motus in central and northern south america
* Columbian NGO called SELVA
* Gray Cheecked thrushes fly from Columbia straight to the upper Midwest
* Now up to 5 stations in critical areas in Columbia
* fence across Panama at thinest point
* Adding towers in Costa Rica, Nicuragua, and Belize
* Interest in studying wintering of Golden-winged and Cerulean Warblers
* New Central America & South America Working group has formed

Ernesto Carmen Costa Rica
* 2-13 stations by the end of this year
* Another fence located along isthmus
* Grey-checked thrush, semipalmated sandpiper, goldenwinged warbler, and Cerulean warbler

Arne Lesterhuis South american birds
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Lisa Sorenson with birds Caribean with Maya Wilson
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Susan Heath from Gulf of Mexico Mostus
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