A study published in January found that male Song sparrows sing a repertoire of up to 12 two-second songs in sets lasting about 30 minutes – repeating a single song many times in a row within each set. During the next set, the males repeat the same 12 songs, but this time, vary the length […]
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Low temperatures and persistent north winds made for a slow start to the bird banding season at PIBO. Mist nest were set up on the 16th and banding began the next day with 9 birds captured of 6 species, including White-Throated Sparrows, American Robins and Northern Cardinals. The most common birds captured have been Red-Winged
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PIBO’s 11th autumn migration monitoring season wrapped up on November 15th after 107 mornings of consecutive coverage from August 1st. Two full-time staff and nine interns/volunteers logged 1016 field-hours at Fish Point and documented 171 species and forms (ten-year average 173). A total of 2027 birds of 62 species was captured in 2900 net-hours, for
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Since 2010, as part of our education mandate, PIBO has delivered in-class presentations to schools in Southern Ontario thanks to funding support from the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resource’s Species at Risk Stewardship Fund and TD Friends of the Environment. Even with this generous support, however, travel costs have made it difficult to reach schools
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It was an active ten days from the 21st – 31st and lots late-fall migrants appeared in good numbers throughout most of the summary period. Songbird diversity was low compared to earlier in the month, but waterfowl numbers picked up including fall ‘firsts’ for Bufflehead, Red-breasted Merganser, Hooded Merganser, and Black Scoter. Smaller numbers of
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Migration activity picked up considerably from October 11th – 15th then tapered off towards the end of the summary period. Lots of kinglets, Winter Wrens, Hermit Thrushes, yellow-rumps, white-throats and juncos, were recorded along with a nice variety of other late-fall migrants, including six fall ‘firsts’. In all, 437 birds were banded in 361 net-hours
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The weather was mixed and variable from April 11th – 20th. Conditions ranged from dawn temperatures of minus 1 to 15; there was snow, sleet, plenty of rain, and intense lightning storms. As a result, daily abundance and diversity varied considerably as well, from a high of 57 species on the 17th to a low
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