By Laura Brandon, Boreal Educator All the rainy weather we’ve been receiving this season has been a challenge. However, despite the wet conditions, we just wrapped up a series of breeding bird surveys as part of a special research project for the local forest industry. Staff observed tons of evidence this week that songbirds are… Read more »
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Although our songbirds are captivatingly beautiful, they are hosts to creepy-crawlies that are distinctly, well, less so. Learn more: www.lslbo.org/weekly-banding-reports/june-23-29-2022/
This Swainson's Thrush captured yesterday in our MAPS site, RESI, was initially banded in the same site back in 2017. He is estimated to be over six years old and was captured in 2019 and 2021 too. To learn about adaptations of breeding birds and our recent MAPS results, see: www.lslbo.org/weekly-banding-reports/june-16-22-2022/
Signs of breeding are plentiful and nests, like this Ruffed Grouse's, are starting to be scattered everywhere. Just in time for us to wrap up our Spring Migration Monitoring program and begin another program focused on these locally breeding birds. To learn more about how one program went and the other is starting check out: www.lslbo.org/weekly-banding-reports/june-9-15-2022/