Pictured: The first Fox Sparrow banded for 2019 Fall Migration Monitoring. Fall Migration Monitoring continues to keep us unusually busy. Across our past 25 years of monitoring, we band an average of 480 songbirds over the course of September. Yet this year we have banded 706 birds since September began. With over two weeks left… Read more »
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2 hours ago
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/
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1 week ago
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/
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2 weeks ago
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/
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