Weekly Reports

Hooray! The birds have arrived! The diversity of species around the lab this week has exploded. Yellow warbler, black-and-white warbler, Lincoln’s sparrow, white-throated sparrow, Swainson’s thrush, least flycatcher, and western tanager, just to name a few, have arrived and are exuberantly advertising their presence with song. With an increase in birds in the area, we… Read more »

This week, spring migration monitoring was brought to us by Mistress Winter. She doled out her best: snow, frigid winds and cold temperatures. Although we are experiencing a lingering bit of winter up here, it is the winter conditions down south that are truly foiling us. Many bird species that should have arrived by now… Read more »

April 23rd was the big day this year – the day the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory began spring migration monitoring for its 21st year. Once again the Observatory will be run by Richard Krikun and myself, Nicole Linfoot. This year, however, we will be joined by a third person: Ryan, who is scheduled to… Read more »