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 »
Posts Tagged: American Robin
June 27 – July 3, 2024
The Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory is still monitoring locally breeding songbirds, but a few birds have already left their summer homes. This dispersal netted us a young Varied Thrush – our first captured during MAPS and only the ninth we have ever banded. While range maps will tell you this species cannot be found… Read more »
May 9 – 15, 2024
Although goose migration has tapered off, our songbirds arrived in droves after being held up by stormy and snowy weather in southern Alberta last week. The biggest days for migration at the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory were May 9 and 10 with around 2,500 Myrtle Warblers counted each day and diversity shot up with… Read more »
June 16 – 22, 2022
As we finish our second period of MAPS, shifts in breeding conditions are plentiful. These changes give hints to each bird’s nesting activity without us having to find the nest. The most detailed clues come from female songbirds who are often solely responsible for incubating a pair’s eggs. To efficiently warm these eggs, females drop… Read more »
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Later this month, our banders will be heading out to record as many species of birds as they can in one day. It is like being on a giant bird scavenger hunt. This year, Team Tanager is fundraising for a wheelchair ramp at the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory that will make our programs more accessible for every visitor to our site. ![]()
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To support Team Tanager and our wheelchair ramp project, check out their donation link. Good luck banders! ![]()
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It's been a slow start to Spring Migration Monitoring so in our first weekly article of 2025 we relate to a naturalist writing in 1949. To learn who said this quote read: www.lslbo.org/weekly-banding-reports/april-16-may-7-2025/