Spring has arrived in the boreal forest which filled with the melodies of songbirds this week at the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory. Many of our short distance migrants have established their breeding territories or have become rare as they travel to different habitats or farther north. Replacing them has been our long-distance migrants with… Read more »
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April 18 – May 4, 2022
On April 18, the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory began its 29th year of monitoring when we started documenting spring migration for 2022. As many will have noticed, the beautiful, warm weather which melted much of the snow at the start of April did not last and it has been rather cold with rainy and… 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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