The start of September has seen a trickle of birds in our songbird migration nets, and a modest seventeen Northern Saw-whet Owls for our owl monitoring program. With the summer vacation season having ended and everyone returning to school and work, we look back fondly on the many tours we ran at the Lesser Slave… Read more »
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August 21 – 27, 2025
Despite the heat, this week has been phenomenal for songbird migration at the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory. Each day was busier than the last as thousands of birds flew overhead during our seven hour monitoring period in the morning. In total, we counted nearly 17,000 birds from August 21 to 27. Most of these… Read more »
September 12 – 18, 2024
Overhead songbird migration and captures have been slow at the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory as the end of Fall Migration Monitoring nears, but that is not to say nothing interesting has happened. We caught a Pileated Woodpecker – only the thirteenth we have ever banded and the first since 2019! As Canada’s largest woodpecker,… Read more »
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The 2025 ANNUAL REPORT is a wrap, so check out all the highlights from last season. Thank you to our dedicated staff, volunteers, members, program partners, and sponsors that enable the LSLBO to deliver such great programs each year! If you are missing our world, just a reminder that spring migration monitoring is only 3 months away! ![]()
www.lslbo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Annual-Report-2025.pdf
SUMMER INTERPRETER JOB POSTING![]()
The Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory and our education partner, the Lesser Slave Forest Education Society are seeking an adventurous, fun and creative individual to join our team this summer! Our summer interpreter will be responsible for leading groups of students on educational fieldtrips, creating new education programs, delivering summer camp programs, leading tours of the LSLBO as well as providing summer interpretive programs at the Boreal Centre for Bird Conservation. For the full job posting please visit:![]()
www.lslbo.org/job-opportunities/summer-interpreter/