After being delayed by high winds and rain late last week which brought a few small trees down over our nets and trails, the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory finally completed our breeding-focused Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) program on May 28, 2024. In general, MAPS went smoothly with a few delays caused by… Read more »
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July 4 – 10, 2024
Here at the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory (LSLBO) we are over half-way through our MAPS program, which focuses on breeding birds. So far in MAPS 44% of our captures were recaptures – that’s a bird that is already banded. Recapturing banded birds is the only way for us to accurately know the age of… Read more »
June 9 – 15, 2022
As June 10 concluded, so too did the 2022 Spring Migration Monitoring program at the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory. With daily coverage since April 18, arrivals and migration peaks have been documented for 160 bird species. Although bird movements began slow-steady with a few sparrow rushes early in the monitoring period, there was a… Read more »
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Although it was a slow spring at the station, we had some great highlights including species #110 banded by the LSLBO – our first Spotted Sandpiper captured on June 5th! Check out all the highlights from our Spring Migration Monitoring Program in the latest weekly report. ![]()
www.lslbo.org/weekly-banding-reports/june-5-11-2025/
This Ovenbird has a ways to go if he wants to beat the LSLBO's oldest Ovenbird recapture of 9 years and 11 months, but he's already half way there! These old birds we recapture every year are one of our favourite part of the MAPS program which is itself the star of this week's report. Read more: www.lslbo.org/weekly-banding-reports/may-29-june-4-2025/![]()
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Young scientists testing out their skills in our Bird Banding 101 fieldtrip. Always so much fun!
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