“…Further, they offer several specific suggestions for using backpack harnesses on kestrels and other small raptors. Mark Martell and team (2023) employed Motus tags to track the dispersal and autumn migration routes of breeding kestrels in Minnesota. They tagged 33 kestrels with Motus tags and subsequently detected 45% of these at various Motus receiving towers and documented dispersal routes, stopover sites, and autumn migratory pathways generally directly south through Iowa and Missouri.…”