Adam Smith

Over the last 20 years, Adam has banded thousands of migratory birds at multiple stopover locations across the US. Specifically, he has studied raptor migration in the western US (MS; Boise State University) and songbird and shorebird migration and stopover ecology along the Atlantic Coast. He has worked as a biologist for the Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resource’s nongame program, and for the last seven years served as a quantitative ecologist with the United States Fish & Wildlife Service National Wildlife Refuge System in the southeast US, providing wildlife inventory and monitoring design and analytical assistance to the roughly 130 National Wildlife Refuges. In that role, Adam also coordinated strategic expansion of the Motus Wildlife Tracking system in the southeastern US. In his role with ABC, he will continue to value and build diverse partnerships with conservation and resource management agencies and organizations to support collaborative projects that seek to understand the ecology and conservation of migratory animals. In close partnership with Birds Canada, Adam’s role will focus on implementing the Motus Strategic Plan across the US and elsewhere in the hemisphere including leveraging the strategic expansion of new Motus infrastructure and projects, helping to improve Motus data flow and user tools, as well as leveraging Motus to support decision-making and on the ground conservation actions for migratory species.