This project is a collaboration of multiple state agencies and subrecipients partners to expand the motus network s capacity and increase knowledge of multiple species of greatest conservation need…

This project is a collaboration of multiple state agencies and subrecipients partners to expand the motus network s capacity and increase knowledge of multiple species of greatest conservation need receivers will be established by north carolina and alabama the alabama wildlife and freshwater fisheries division and north carolina wildlife resources commission will strategically establish at least 35 automated telemetry receiver stations in AL, NC, VA, SC, GA, TN, WV, and KY arranged as fences that intersect major migratory routes through the central and southern appalachian mountains, the appalachian piedmont, and the atlantic coastal plain additional state agency partners in VA, WV, KY, TN, SC, and GA, have agreed to informally assist with station siting, permitting, and compliance, leveraging state partnerships that are not requesting funding or providing match, but will significantly strengthen the network of receiving stations in the southeast an additional 20 existing receiver stations will be upgraded from 166 MHZ stations to dual mode 166 and 434 MHZ stations additionally, research on the following sgcn will occur eastern towhee willistown conservation trust and the virginia commonwealth university will use multi year nanotags to assess migratory movements of eastern towhees eato , a steeply declining species with unknown migratory pathways, in PA and VA golden winged warbler using the motus station established at bramble hill, VA, the virginia commonwealth university will deploy 5 nanotags on breeding golden winged warblers may june 2023 in order to document fall departure spring arrival dates and annual survival, as supplemental information for the road to recovery project amber roth, univ of maine to estimate adult apparent survival of golden winged warblers for parameterizing an integrated population model swainson s warbler the virginia department of conservation management institute and USGS virginia cooperative fish and wildlife research unit will move an array of three existing motus receiver stations from the VA eastern shore to southwest VA spring summer 2023 to dickenson CO and buchanan CO , VA, to form a cluster targeting the breeding season and migratory movements of swainson s warblers swwa the remaining three stations will be deployed in support of objective 4 3 of three sub populations of swwas in the southeastern u s , the southern appalachian rhododendron cove breeders lanham and miller 2006 are the least studied or monitored little is known about the current population status, breeding ecology, or migratory movement of this population gray BAT researchers from virginia tech will move an array of six existing motus stations from the virginia eastern shore to southwest virginia in spring summer 2023 BOG turtle hyperlocal telemetry will allow the tennessee chapter of the nature conservancy to assess how varying degrees of livestock grazing pressure on multiflora rose and other invasive plants affects federally endangered BOG turtle populations on four conservancy preserves in johnson CO , TN, comprising more than 800 acres of rare mountain BOG habitat i