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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While this Ruffed Grouse may have been the last bird captured during Fall Migration Monitoring, it was not the last bird banded since we cannot band these non-migratory Albertan gamebirds. To find out who got our last fall band, check out our fall summary: www.lslbo.org/weekly-banding-reports/september-26-october-3-2024/
Thank to the LSLBO banders for sharing their world (and their beautiful owls) with our Owl Night visitors. They are our favourite programs of the year! ❤️
It has been a busy owl season and we are even catching them in our Fall Migration Monitoring nets! Thank you to our banders who carefully extracted this Northern Saw-whet owl and its breakfast vole. If you have ever wondered what these tiny owls eat, it looks like "alot"! ![]()
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Check out how our Fall Owl Migration Monitoring season is going so far in the latest LSLBO weekly report.![]()
www.lslbo.org/weekly-banding-reports/september-19-25-2024/