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Every Spring, thousands of Red Knots travel 9,000 miles from South America’s Tierra del Fuego to the Canadian Arctic for their breeding season. With such a long migration, this shorebird must make stops along the way to eat and rest. The Delaware Bay is the perfect pitstop, where the horseshoe crab eggs provide nourishment for the exhausted Red Knots and other migratory shorebirds.

But this essential food source is under threat. Unsustainable harvesting of horseshoe crabs in the Atlantic Coast led to the loss of two thirds of its population

_{This YouTube video was produced by the American Bird Conservancy.}

The Motus Wildlife Tracking Network has revolutionized scientific knowledge about animal migration since 2014, using automated radio telemetry to track movements across more than 2,270 receiving stations around the globe. One such station is located in Virginia, where the fast-declining Rusty Blackbird is known to spend the nonbreeding season. Watch this video to learn more about the species and the role that Motus plays in its conservation.

Birds Canada oversees the global Motus network, while American Bird Conservancy (ABC) is guiding the expansion of Motus efforts in the U.S. Since

_{This YouTube video was produced by the American Bird Conservancy.}

The Antioquia Brushfinch was first described in 2007, but only on the basis of three museum specimens. A live bird was not found in the field until 2018, when an unfamiliar brushfinch was spotted by a keen-eyed agronomist on his way to weekly Mass on the outskirts of Medellín, Colombia.

The Antioquia Brushfinch belongs to a group of large sparrows found in humid mountain forests from Mexico south to Argentina. Its species name, blancae, refers to the bird’s pale underparts. It also refers to the Colombian lepidopterologist Blanca Huertas, the