Todd Alleger of the Northeast Motus Collaboration & Willistown Conservation Trust installs the first of 50 Motus receiving stations in Stoddard with members of NH Audubon, NH Fish & Game, and volunteers.
Marc Nutter Photo
The first of an eventual network of 50 wildlife tracking stations across New England is now in southwestern New Hampshire, allowing scientists and conservation agencies to track the movements of tagged birds, bats and migratory insects.
The station was erected last month in Stoddard on the 515-acre Granite Lake Headwaters property of the Harris Center for Conservation Education in Hancock.
According to a New Hampshire Audubon news release, it is the newest addition to the Motus Wildlife Tracking System, a global network of nearly 1,000 such stations coordinated by Birds Canada. It can automatically track a new generation of highly miniaturized radio transmitters small enough to be deployed on animals such as hummingbirds and monarch butterflies.