Cellular Tracking Technologies

Can Monarch butterflies cross the Gulf of Mexico? It appears so! TWO tagged monarchs crossed the Gulf of Mexico in the first trans-Gulf monarch crossings recorded by Project Monarch! Can they find their way to Michoacán? Only time will tell! @ryannorrissci.bsky.social

The first of the fall 2026 Project Monarch cohort have made it into Mexico!! Check out the press release for details! #monarch #butterfly #movementEcology #MotusWTS projectmonarch.org/press/2026-1...

A Northern Waterthrush tagged in Cape May, NJ left after sunset on Sep 11. Two weeks later it was over Colombia! Jamaica -> Colombia included ~800 km of open Caribbean. 3,082 km so far! @birdscanada.bsky.social @originalstu.bsky.social #MotusWTS #BirdMigration #ornithology @nature.org

Some great researchers doing the hard work here at @nyserda.bsky.social #StateOfTheScience2026 to understand the potential impacts of offshore wind and how to balance renewable energy with wildlife conservation. #BRI #UCSC

The #SouthernSierraResearchStation has been working with our tech since 2019 and it's great to see how much information they're able to gather on small - previously untrackable - species. Check it out! southernsierraresearch.org/testing-new-... #MotusWTS #WildlifeConservation #techforgood

Our SensorStation receivers are now collecting data from buoys off the New Jersey coast - helping track birds and bats in offshore habitats as part of the NJDEP RMI. Big shoutout to the partners! #OTS #NJDEP #SensorStation #CTT #WildlifeTelemetry #MotusWTS www.fondriest.com/news/trackin...

Our friend and colleague on many projects, including #ProjectSNOWstorm, Scott Weidensaul, provides insight into the linkage between healthy #bird population and a healthy planet. Read the full article 👇 news.mongabay.com/2026/04/how-... #BirdsRule #WildlifeConservation #Ornithology 🪶🦩🐦‍⬛

Research helping us better understand eastern golden eagles, featuring Michael Lanzone, Trish Miller, and collaborators, and guiding stronger conservation. www.creators.com/read/bonnie-... #GoldenEagle #Conservation #WildlifeTelemetry

We're getting to the turning point where monarchs start to leave the overwintering sites. Follow along on the Project Monarch app as we watch the back end of the migratory generation's migration unfold. #MigrationScience #WildlifeConservation #WildlifeTelemetry #CMPASC @xercessociety.bsky.social

It has been an exciting Saturday! The #ProjectMonarch story has been featured twice on @npr.org today - once during the #BBCWeekend newscast this morning, and once during #WaitWaitDontTellMe during the Limerick Challenge! Here's a sick visualization by #CapeMayArtsAndScienceCenter 's Sean Burcher!

How do you track an animal that weighs 0.5g? With #WildlifeTech that weighs almost nothing at all. The #BlūMorpho is the smallest wildlife transmitter ever deployed on a #MonarchButterfly built in Cape May, NJ. Tiny tag, huge leap for migration science. #ScienceInMotion #WildlifeConservation

A scientific milestone once considered impossible. Huge gratitude to all of our partners from 2023 to today: #CMPASC, #MotusWTS, @birdscanada.bsky.social, @xercessociety.bsky.social and the incredible community of researchers who made this dream real. We've only just begun! 🦋 (Article @nytimes.com)

The Xerces Society is made up of some of the best invertebrate researchers and conservationists. We are so excited to work with them whenever we can- and so glad that they are an integral part of the #ProjectMonarch Collaboration!

Today we, along with over 20 amazing collaborators, made history- but we've only just begun! Check out the NYT article and click the link within to see more about the #ProjectMonarch Collaboration. #monarchscience #conservationscience #wildlifetracking

From rain to starlight; an engaging plenary to a night in the Costa Rican highlands with Ernesto Carman and the Unspotted Saw-whet Owl. Science, persistence, and conservation at their best. We're all excited for what’s ahead. #RRF2025 #RaptorResearch #WildlifeTech #CostaRica 🦉🪶🇨🇷

Hawks, swifts & hummers—Costa Rica in motion. Broad-winged Hawks lifting with 100s of White-collared Swifts; Volcano, Scintillant & Lesser Violetears jousting over flowers near Poás. Back in San José for the #RRF2025 conference and so stoked! #BirdMigration #CostaRica

Looking for a job, or to pursue an advanced academic degree in ornithology? Be sure to follow Dr Lucy Mitchell- she reposts the best opportunities! bsky.app/profile/lucy...

Heading to Costa Rica for #RRF2025! Had to leave Cape May at 2:30am to stay ahead of the nor’easter bearing down on the region. Fingers crossed we get out of Newark and find a way around this storm! #RaptorConservation #RaptorResearch #BirbsRule #Ornithology #PuraVida

Check out our most recent newsletter with timely data about the #RRF2025 meeting! us6.campaign-archive.com?e=__test_ema...

In Costa Rica for the Raptor Research Foundation conference 🇨🇷 and already speechless — Mike & Trish joined the Talamanca Hawk Watch where 2–4 K raptors ride each thermal south. Migration, family, and science all in one view. #RRF2025 #RaptorMigration #CostaRica #WildlifeTech

Our VP of Global Market Development was across the pond contributing to a special symposium on European #MotusWTS last week during the @eounion.bsky.social ‘s #EOU2025 Congress.

Richard Holland presenting in the Migration I session, on how birds use magnetic cues associated with direction finding to locate their position; FASCINATING! #EOU2025 #Bangor #Wales

Will Cresswell delivers an excellent plenary talk at the 15th European Ornithologists' Congress in Bangor, Wales #EOU2025. Oh and he's a bang-on doppelgänger for Edward Norton.

Some excellent talks about the effect of light pollution on birds at #EOU2025 European Ornithologists' Congress in Bangor, Wales.

Marc Illa presenting at the 2025 Migrant Landbird Study Group meeting, prior to the 15th European Ornithologists' Congress, in Bangor, Wales. Marc was in Cape May back in 2018, the inaugural year of the Cape May Stopover Project, and it's great to see what he has been up to. #EOU2025

Since 2012, we've tracked 250+ bald eagles (146 as nestlings)! One female, originally caught in OK and now grown up and nesting in KS, is now heading north. In winter, eagles feed on gut piles, risking lead poisoning from ammo. Hunters can help by switching to lead-free. #BaldEagle #Conservation

Today CTT's Sean Burcher and colleagues will reveal never before seen data on Monarch migration- and how YOU can be part of history!!! Check it out today on this free webinar: secure.qgiv.com/for/monarchc...

@celltracktech.bsky.social 's VP of Sales, Marketing and Customer Support spent the early morning hours banding Purple Martins at the Cape May Point State Park. "We're still using traditional bands and field-readable auxiliary markers, but next year I hope to use some of the BlūSeries tags!" -David