Argos News
Search filters
Tracking juvenile northern gannets: post-fledging movements and migration journeys
Juvenile northern gannets fledge independently from their parents. They are therefore required to learn flight and foraging skills and make an autumn migration on their own. Mortality in seabirds is...
Western Australian green turtle behaviour analysed
A large population of green turtles is found in Western Australia. Using a database of tracks enables scientists to model their behaviour and help in deciding the protection regulations to enforce....
Whimbrels crossing tropical storms
Whimbrels migrate at the peak of the hurricane season, crossing the Atlantic. Different populations of this American shorebirds have different strategies to deal with tropical storms. However, they...
A whale’s slumber detected in Argos data
Animal tracking with Argos began in the 1980s. Improved techniques and satellite coverage now allow for much more tracking, with better resolutions. However, old tracks analysed with current methods...
Argos Telemetry Collars Allow Scientists to Track Macaw Movement Patterns and Advocate for Expanded Protection
Macaws are living in the wild – they are not “only” pets. Tracking Scarlet and Blue-and-Yellow Macaw with Argos enables to demonstrate that they move between protected and non-protected areas....
Less oxygen in the ocean may mean more threats from fisheries for blue sharks
Blue sharks, as many pelagic species of sharks, are often found in the surface layers above the existing Oxygen Minimum Zones. Those layers might shrink due to climate change and the expansion of...
Light-bellied Brent geese migrate non-stop across the open-ocean
Wild geese are among the most famous migratory birds – stars of fiction and documentaries. However, there are a number of different species, the Light-bellied Brent Geese among them. They don’t have...
![[WEBINAR] Argos Bird Telemetry: User Community Stopover](https://www.argos-system.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Argos-birds-webinar.jpg)
[WEBINAR] Argos Bird Telemetry: User Community Stopover
Registrations are now closed. This webinar was an opportunity to bring the community (virtually) back together while sharing some great research. Thank you to everyone who participated. You can...
Manatee tracking study highlights the problems of dams in Africa
Manatees can live in rivers. However, in Africa, dams have been built over rivers, so that mitigation and modifications should be made to let the manatees come and go with the wet and dry seasons. A...
Albatrosses detect illegal fishing boats
Albatrosses tend to be attracted by fishing boats, which is one of the main threats on the species. The bycatch risk is usually assessed by comparing albatrosses’ and (legal) boats locations....
Jaguars in need of increasing biosphere reserve
Jaguars are one of the emblematic animals throughout the Americas. As most large terrestrial predators, it is threatened of extinction. Tracking them using Argos satellite telemetry enable to better...
How do sea turtles fare after being rehabilitated and released?
Sea turtle rehabilitation centres are becoming increasingly important to threatened sea turtle populations around the world. However, one key question is whether rehabilitation is actually helpful...
Backstage pass: Kinéis constellation update
If you had to describe Argos in two words, what it would be? According to Michel Sarthou, Chief Technical Officer at Kinéis, former Head of Argos space segment at CNES (French Space Agency) it would...
Common nighthawk populations do not stay apart during migrations
The common nighthawk is an American migratory bird, traveling long distances between North America and Tropical South America. For their conservation and understanding, biologists study if their...
3 Top Tips for using your Goniometer with Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray joined the Argos team in 2016 and has quickly become our go-to person on all things Goniometer. He brings ten years of sales and marketing experience in the underwater tech realm...
Argos helps in revealing how juvenile emperor penguins learn to feed
Emperor penguins and their young are emblematic of Antarctica. Argos satellite telemetry enabled to track the adults quite early. Now the scientists are looking at how the juveniles are learning to...
Lost Glider at sea found thanks to Argos and Goniometer
Gliders are valuable platforms in terms of equipment but also in terms of the vital information they collect. It is therefore not surprising that many of them are equipped with small Argos beacons...
How male Antarctic fur seals compete with fisheries and penguins for krill
Krill is at the base of the food-chain near Antarctica. It is also fished, with regulations enforced in regions where endangered species are also feeding on it. However, other species can also...
Argos Forum #87 | Biodiversity: Increasing our knowledge from space
Record-Breaking distances revealed by Argos, Spoon-billed Sandpipers, long-range travelers, Sea turtle ecology: a novel solution to increase knowledge using Argos, etc.
Pronghorn migration across borders and human-made landscapes
Mapping of ungulate migration habitat is important for their conservation. Pronghorn are an endemic species of North America (Canada, USA, and Mexico), migrating between different regions. Satellite...
Feedback from the field: Kineis – the Future of Argos
"The new system looks very promising for us. I think it’s a great step forward, this is a major advancement which is coming at a critical juncture in the conservation of polar bears as the climate...
How endangered species such as marine turtles use Marine Protected Areas?
Marine Protected Areas are one of the main instruments for endangered species protection. Argos can help in defining their outlines to have the best impact, especially when a large number of tracks...
Tracking plastic bottles from rivers to ocean
Plastic in the environment, especially in the ocean, is a major pollution concern currently. If it is well established that most of it comes from land through rivers, how far and by which path? A...
The Argos Goniometer recovers data of a tagged fish eaten by a predator
Scientists Chiang, Wei-Chuan (Riyar) & Shian-Jhong Lin, from Eastern Marine Biology Research Center of Fisheries Research Center, Taiwan and Michael K. Musyl from Pelagic Research Group LLC,...
Modelling Amazonian black skimmers habitat use
The Amazon Rainforest is hard to reach, but home to a large number of species. Birds like the Amazonian black skimmers live apart of their life there, but move around a lot. Argos satellite...
Restoring rice paddies to help oriental white stork reintroduction success in Japan
Considering the suitability of the environment is the key to successfully reintroduce a species in an habitat where it disappeared. Oriental white stork disappeared from Japan fifty years ago,. The...
Gull-billed terns keep their migration route and winter sites from year to year
Migratory birds may keep the same routes and the same nesting and wintering sites from year to year. Such species may be all the more fragile if environmental changes occur. Argos satellite...
Whale sharks near Saint Helena Island, Atlantic Ocean
Whale sharks are found in all tropical waters around the globe, including in the Atlantic Ocean. Some places could host their reproduction, thus being critical places to protect and potentially...
News alert: Argos data provides shocking evidence to legitimize Marine Protected Areas
Since 1978 the ARGOS System has been used to improve scientists’ knowledge regarding animal behavior. However, Whale Sharks remain one of the biggest mysteries of the Oceans but thanks to technology...
Unveiling the mysteries of a scarcely known seabird, the Beck’s petrel
Some species can be mostly unknown even nowadays. Beck’s petrel, a seabird living around Papua-New Guinea island is among them. Understanding where they breed, live can enable to protect them. Argos...