It has been yet another unusually busy week of Fall Migration Monitoring for the LSLBO with 264 birds banded. This brings our fall banding total to 3563, officially making this the busiest fall season in our 26 years of monitoring with over a week left to go! The former busiest fall season was in 2002… Read more »
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Fall owl banding has been relatively slow, but it has been exciting including the recent recapture of a Northern Saw-whet Owl originally banded last October near Saskatoon. While migrating at night has many advantages, light pollution may have seriously impacted this little owls journey to the LSLBO. Find out more in our latest weekly report! ![]()
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Image: Two capture locations for this Northern Saw-whet Owl with the light pollution levels in our area. ![]()
Map data obtained from lightpollutionmap.info
There has been another thrilling capture and it did indeed have long hind claws. These claws are hard to see when the bird is not in-the-hand, but they are this family's namesake. To discover who we banded read our weekly report: www.lslbo.org/weekly-banding-reports/september-14-20-2023/
It's that time of year again where we become night owls to capture these little owls! We have been running our owl migration monitoring program for two weeks now and it has been off to a slow start with half as many captures as this time last year. Read more: www.lslbo.org/weekly-banding-reports/september-7-13-2023/