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Cellular Tracking Technologies We are a team of biologists, engineers and conservationists making tools for wildlife telemetry.

CTT brings the “Internet of Things” revolution to wildlife telemetry. Our careers in wildlife biology translate to the most integrated ergonomic designs, housing the most reliable and highest-performing GPS telemetry devices. Lightweight, solar-powered, energy-thrifty, and rugged, these devices deliver critical high resolution data at low cost via global cellular networks.

10/23/2026

On October 21 at 4:19 AM, a phone in western Caracas picked up NOWA_26-27, a Northern Waterthrush tagged at Cape May, New Jersey. It’s the first bird from the Cape May Songbird Stopover Project detected in Venezuela. New Jersey Audubon tagged it on September 2 at The Nature Conservancy’s South Cape May Meadows. It spent three weeks refueling there, flew past the Morning Flight count on the Higbee d**e, and was last heard at Cape May on September 24, just after sunset. Twenty-six days later it turned up in Caracas, 3,259 km away. This spring, Venezuelan researcher Miguel Matta (motusven) came to Delaware Bay to help with New Jersey Audubon’s shorebird research, alongside David Mizrahi, who tagged this waterthrush. The bird was detected less than 8 km from the Caracas Botanical Garden, where Miguel studies wintering waterthrushes. Will his team recapture it? Full story on the CTT blog. Link in our stories. A collaboration between New Jersey Audubon, Cape May Bird Observatory, The Nature Conservancy In NJ and Cellular Tracking Technologies, in partnership with Birds Canada and MotusWTS. With thanks to Environment for the Americas and the central #.

10/22/2026

Amazing work being done by the all volunteer, Cape May Owl Project check out this reel and Support their work at CapeMayOwls.org!

10/19/2026

Northern Waterthrush update: five of the waterthrushes tagged at the Cape May Stopover Project have made it to Colombia.

Where they are now (as of Oct. 18):

5 in Colombia
8 in the Bahamas
1 each in Cuba, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic

How they left: on Sept. 14, five left Cape May in one evening on a north wind behind a cold front. By 4 AM, four were 250 to 310 miles away in North Carolina. Of the 31 departures we could pin to a night, 21 came with a tailwind aloft, even though only 15 of 48 nights had one.

A race down Florida: on the night of Sept. 25, NOWA_26-47 started 88 miles behind NOWA_26-30 and still reached Miami first. It covered 378 miles in 9½ hours, averaging 40 mph on a north wind.

The quiet one: NOWA_26-45 was last heard at Cape May three minutes after 26-30. 26-30 was heard 57 times on its way down Florida. 26-45 wasn't heard again until it was over Cuba on Oct. 11, which points to a route over open water.

These tags run for about 3 months, long enough to cover fall migration. They're on a leg-loop harness that degrades over time, so the tags fall off.

Next up: Swamp Sparrows.

The Cape May Songbird Stopover Project is a collaboration between New Jersey Audubon, Cape May Bird Observatory, The Nature Conservancy in New Jersey and Cellular Tracking Technologies, in partnership with Birds Canada and Wildlife Tracking System.

Just wrapping up an amazing week of the North American Society for Bat Research (NASBR) Conference in Fort Collins, Colo...
10/17/2026

Just wrapping up an amazing week of the North American Society for Bat Research (NASBR) Conference in Fort Collins, Colorado. I got to participate in a suturing workshop that was next-level amazing. Got to meet some of the most eminent bat ecologists in the world. Got to see some amazing talks from veteran bat experts to undergraduate researchers and everything in between. It's really exciting to see what this community is accomplishing and to hear about their lofty goals for the future. And I'm so excited that CTT can play a meaningful part in helping them reach their research objectives. Nancy Simmons was spot on, during her amazing plenary, when she said “there has never been a better time to be a bat biologist”. This is my first bat conference, but it's far from my last. Can't wait to see you all again soon!

10/12/2026

One week ago we tagged 10 Ruby-throated Hummingbirds in Cape May. All 10 have now left, and they didn't all take the same road.

Eight followed the coast:

Six left the same morning, October 6.
Most are now on stopovers in Georgia and Florida, heard at the same spots day after day near Augusta, Cordele and Daytona Beach.
The farthest is 787 miles from Cape May.
A Motus Terra station near Daytona Beach picked one of them up too.

Two went inland, including F37855:

October 10: left Cape May in the morning
1:10 PM: over the Blue Ridge, near Swift Run Gap (2,390 ft)
4:50 PM: over the Alleghenies into West Virginia, 325 miles from Cape May in one day
October 11: near Kingsport, Tennessee

None of the 57 hummingbirds we tagged in New Jersey last fall went through West Virginia.

Meanwhile, back in Cape May, Phoebe Lanzone is home from Rochester Institute of Technology for the long weekend. Phoebe is a trained hummingbird ba**er, and last fall she led the hummingbird project at the Cape May Point Arts and Science Center. On October 11, she and her dad, Mike Lanzone, also a certified ba**er, tagged two more at their home. We're lucky to still have hummingbirds around this late in the season. Both were in good shape, at 4.6 and 4.7 grams, and the bird in the final release dips as it flies away, a great sign it has plenty of fat stores for the journey ahead.

Last fall, the bird named for Phoebe made it to El Salvador. Maybe a good omen for these two late migrants? Be sure to follow us for updates in the days and weeks to come.

Every red dot in the video is a phone, tablet or computer with Bluetooth and location services turned on that heard one of the tags. The blue diamonds are Motus stations.

New Jersey HumTrack and the Lower Cape Stopover Project are a collaboration between Banding Coalition of the Americas, Cape May Point Arts and Science Center and Cellular Tracking Technologies, in partnership with Birds Canada and Wildlife Tracking System.

10/12/2026

Northern Waterthrush update: two waterthrushes we tagged at Cape May have crossed open ocean to the Bahamas, with very different winds.

NOWA_26-50 left Cape May on Sept. 23 and stopped in Suffolk, Virginia, while a nor’easter spun up offshore. After sunset on Sept. 25 it left on the storm’s north winds.

A tailwind every hour of the flight: about 37 mph at first, 6 mph by the Bahamas
Over Nassau at 7:33 PM on Sept. 26
About 800 miles in about 24 hours

NOWA_26-56 was last detected at Cape May on Oct. 3. A cold front cleared Cape May on Oct. 5, and that night it was over Delmarva.

North winds pushed it south for about 18 hours
Then the wind turned, and the last 10 hours were into a headwind
Bimini at 3:35 AM on Oct. 7: about 930 miles in about 31 hours

By our estimate, the tailwind cut at least 10 hours off 26-50’s trip compared with still air. 26-56’s mixed winds saved it only about 3.

The wind in the video is from the ECMWF weather model at about 2,500 feet, checked against weather balloon data.

These two are among 56 waterthrushes tagged at Cape May this season. Where do they go next? Follow along to find out.

The Cape May Songbird Stopover Project is a collaboration between New Jersey Audubon, Cape May Bird Observatory, The Nature Conservancy in New Jersey Cellular Tracking Technologies, in partnership with Birds Canada and Wildlife Tracking System.

10/12/2026

This is a great project we've been supporting for the last few years, but builds on over 40 years of data on owl status and distribution in Cape May, our hometown. Please consider supporting the Cape May Owl Project at https://capemayowls.org/give. Every dollar goes to purchasing telemetry equipment and replacing nets at the banding station- all the other 100s of hours of labor are 100% volunteered- so your dollars are going directly to conservation-based research.

10/06/2026

Three tagged monarchs reached Mexico on October 5, the first of this fall's Project Monarch cohort.

MB26011, released at the Living Prairie Museum in Winnipeg, was heard in Del Rio, Texas, and 37 minutes later across the Rio Grande in Coahuila. Within 48 minutes, Youbetcha from Bemidji, Minnesota, and Noor from Toronto were heard near Palaú, Coahuila. By the next morning, Youbetcha was 80 km farther south.

Each carries a 0.06 g solar BlūMorpho tag that phones and Motus-compatible stations pick up as the monarch passes. More than 1,300 monarchs have been tagged this fall by the Project Monarch Collaboration.

Follow along in the free Project Monarch app: projectmonarch.org

Featured monarchs tagged by Environment and Climate Change Canada, Assiniboine Park Conservancy, the Living Prairie Museum, Bemidji State University (student chapter of The Wildlife Society and the Biology Department) and the Scarborough Rosetta Gardens Monarch Taggers. Photo of a tagged monarch: Cellular Tracking Technologies.

Environment and Climate Change

10/06/2026

Last year, we partnered with great collaborators under the banner of HumTrack. These included the Cape May Point Arts and Science Center and the leaders of the partnership, Banding Coalition of the Americas.While we're still in the process of analyzing those data (which are pretty amazing by the way!) we had an opportunity to get a few more tags out this fall, and we're already seeing some very cool results, and we wanted to share them with you. So here's a short video showing some of the earliest tracks of the Ruby-throated Hummingbirds that were tagged last weekend here in Cape May, New Jersey. We're looking forward to seeing how these tracks overlay with the rest of the tracks that are being collected across North America by our wonderful collaborators and the leaders of this project, Kyle Shepard and Dr. Emma Rhodes, at the Banding Coalition of the Americas . All banding and tagging are done by licensed researchers operating under all appropriate state and federal permits.

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