Summary

This episode is all about the ways that scientists track the movements of individual birds.

The focus of today’s episode is not so much about the behaviors of birds, but about the technologies used by researchers to study bird behavior—the methods used to reveal the movements of birds.

And our focus will be on the tracking of individual birds. There are other methods scientists use to record the mass movements of birds, like using radar to track flocks of migrants.

But today we’re looking at techniques that can reveal the unique paths taken by an individual bird—a sandpiper, a hawk, albatross, pheasant, penguin, or whoever.

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Links of Interest

• Motus

Research Citations

• Effects of tracking devices on individual birds – a review of the evidence
• Individual-Based Tracking Systems in Ornithology: Welcome to the Era of Big Data
• Ten years tracking the migrations of small landbirds: Lessons learned in the golden age of bio-logging
• Home range size, space use and resource selection of griffon vultures in an insular environment
• Australian Magpies Gymnorhina tibicen cooperate to remove tracking devices
• Light-level geolocation reveals wintering distribution, migration routes, and primary stopover locations of an endangered long-distance migratory songbird
• Underestimated scale of songbird offshore migration across the south-eastern North Sea during autumn

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