The Gottlieb Native Garden, in collaboration with Pasadena Audubon, installed a Motus Wildlife Tracking System in hopes of adding data to this international collaborative research project that uses radio telemetry to track flying animals.
Motus collaborators have contributed to hundreds of academic publications covering a wide range of subjects such as breeding and post-breeding dispersal, stopover and migration behavior, habitat use, and overwintering ecology. Data collected by Motus is revolutionizing our understanding of migratory animals and because of the garden’s geographic position, we hope to add to this research by receiving radio signals broadcast by migrating birds and bats flying over Los Angeles.