The Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory (LSLBO) is in the thick of Fall Migration Monitoring with our summer residents quickly vanishing. However, since we have officially passed any chance to complete our MAPS (Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship) operations, let’s do a preliminary roll-up of our MAPS results. MAPS is a continent-wide program monitoring songbird… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Bay-breasted Warbler
July 17 – 23, 2025
For many locals we are in the thick of summer, but for us at the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory and our songbirds, it is already fall as most of our local birds have finished breeding and southward migration is well underway. Overhead we are seeing a steady trickle of warblers, sparrows, and blackbirds with… Read more »
August 1-8, 2019
Fall Migration Monitoring continues to keep field staff busy at the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory. As of August 9, we have already banded 1793 birds of 45 species. We are getting very few of our own bands recaptured, suggesting that many of our locally breeding birds have already left the area. With seven weeks… Read more »
