With high winds and yellow leaves beginning to cover the ground, things have been quite quiet during Fall Migration Monitoring at the LSLBO this past week. The same cannot be said about our nightly owl banding program. On September 24th we banded a record-breaking 30 Northern Saw-whet Owls. Each year, there are over 125 different… Read more »
Posts By: Patti Campsall
August 21 – 27, 2025
Despite the heat, this week has been phenomenal for songbird migration at the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory. Each day was busier than the last as thousands of birds flew overhead during our seven hour monitoring period in the morning. In total, we counted nearly 17,000 birds from August 21 to 27. Most of these… Read more »
July 24 – 31, 2025
Fall songbird migration has certainly picked up at the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory but remains relatively slow with just around a hundred birds traveling overhead daily. Busy days for fall migration are impossible to predict, but can bring a thousand songbirds or more overhead and a hundred plus into the mist-nets. So far, we… Read more »
July 10 -16, 2025
Fall migration has officially begun! While we are still wrapping up our MAPS (Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship) Breeding Bird program, the birds are already departing the boreal forest. Where the forest was once alive with beautiful bird songs, we now hear the sharp chips of foraging birds and the begging calls of juvenile birds… Read more »
July 3 – 9, 2025
Summer has just begun, but we are already seeing signs of fall for the birds. During our MAPS program, some adults are already beginning their flight feather moult in preparation for migration. While we’ve only caught a few fledglings so far, we hear them begging and see parents stuffing their bills with insects as these… Read more »
May 8 – 15, 2025
Spring has arrived in the boreal forest which filled with the melodies of songbirds this week at the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory. Many of our short distance migrants have established their breeding territories or have become rare as they travel to different habitats or farther north. Replacing them has been our long-distance migrants with… Read more »
September 19 – 25, 2024
September 12 – 18, 2024
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
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
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 »
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