High hopes: the satellite network building the âinternet of animalsâ Creatures great and small are being tracked from space in a project that will help transform our understanding of how and why they migrate. By Sonia Shah February 27, 2021 Credit:Illustration by Shyama Golden/The New York Times Save Normal text size Very large text size â³Iâm going to do a set of coos,â Calandra Stanley whispered into the radio. The ornithologist from Washington DCâs Georgetown University and her team had been hunting cuckoos, in an oak-and-hickory forest on the edge of a southern Illinois cornfield, for weeks. Droplets of yesterdayâs rain slid off the leaves above to those below in a steady drip. In the distance, bullfrogs croaked from a shallow lake, where locals go ice fishing in winter.