Motus: Bird Migration Tracking by Polk County Conservation

Polk County Conservation · March 11, 2026

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Polk County Conservation introduction and program overview

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Doug Sheileley, identifying himself as a natural resources supervisor with Polk County Conservation, introduced the county's involvement in wildlife management and described a program called Motus (referred to in the transcript as "Modus") to create stations across the Western Hemisphere to track bird migration.

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Polk County Conservation staff and a Drake University ornithologist described plans to deploy Motus tracking stations at Chichaqua Bottoms Greenbelt to study bird migration stopover sites and noted long-term bird population declines in Iowa.

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