Posts By: Patti Campsall

Avian Monitoring Field Assistant

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POSITION IS CLOSED Job Type: Full Time Summer Position. Term:  Tentatively May 1 to August 30, 2025 Wage: Approximately $3250 to 3500 per month based on experience and qualifications. Job Description The Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory (LSLBO) is located in the Boreal Forest’s Lesser Slave Lake Provincial Park, approximately 20 km north of Slave… Read more »

Information Officer

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OPEN UNTIL FILLED Job Type:  Full-time Summer Position Term:   May 1st to Aug 31st, 2025 Wage:  Approx. $21 – 23 per hour depending on experience and qualifications. Job Description: Do you love working with people? We are seeking a friendly, outgoing individual to help us with visitor information services at the Boreal Centre for Bird… Read more »

Interpreter – 4M and 6M positions

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POSITIONS ARE NOW CLOSED Job Type:     2 Full-time seasonal positions Positions and Terms: Summer Interpreter: 4-month position – May 1 to August 31, 2025 Boreal Interpreter: 6-month position – May 1 to Oct 31, 2025 Note: There is a possibility of extension for these interpreter positions dependent on funding. Wage:  $22-25 per hour depending… Read more »

September 12 – 18, 2024

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Overhead songbird migration and captures have been slow at the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory as the end of Fall Migration Monitoring nears, but that is not to say nothing interesting has happened. We caught a Pileated Woodpecker – only the thirteenth we have ever banded and the first since 2019! As Canada’s largest woodpecker,… Read more »

August 22 – 28, 2024

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Ask the field staff how the past week has been going at the station, and the response is SLOW! With fall arriving in the boreal forest, we are observing a significant slowdown in fall migration with captures of some warbler species slowing down to a trickle. We are also starting to observe flocks of migratory… Read more »

August 1 – 7, 2024

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Summer is slipping away fast at the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory. By the time August is over, we will have seen the last of most of our long-distance migrants that arrived only a few months ago for a hurried breeding season in the boreal forest. Their long journeys seem to have been worth every… Read more »

May 23 – 29, 2024

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Most birds who migrate north of the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory to the tundra have already left and taken with them the peak of overall avian diversity for the year. Yet the nets still have some surprises for us including the 35th ever (but ninth of spring) Connecticut Warbler and our fourth ever (second… Read more »

September 21 – 27, 2023

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Fall migration continues to be unusually slow. The nights have been warm and the owls sparse, but there are other things of interest in the dark hours from the odd deer, flying squirrel, or bear to spectacular northern lights and migrating geese. It may come as a surprise that most migration occurs at night when… Read more »

August 10 – 16, 2023

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Following August 10’s rain that stilled bird activity, things were looking up for us as we were able to open our ground level nets for most of the next two days. The good luck was not to last as last week’s Black Bear made a reappearance to again close our ground level nets as a… Read more »