I’d like you to join me in wishing the very best to the departing Managing Director, Chief Bander, and Founder to the Pelee Island Bird Observatory, Graeme Gibson the Younger. It was Graeme’s idea – could it be thirteen years ago? — to establish a bird banding station – using ethical protocols that put the […]
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Here we are in the beautiful month of May. The buds haven’t quite burst open yet, but plenty of birds are singing, and Schumann probably didn’t have the first of the month in mind when he wrote his song cycle anyway. The weather is only sluggishly warming up, the continuing cool temperatures perhaps the lingering
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This year PIBO’s Field Manager/Bander-in-charge has joined many others to raise money for avian research and conservation. The Great Canadian Birdathon is a way for birders and bird enthusiasts to come together for a worthy cause. Sumiko has been with PIBO for ten years, and she certainly knows her birds! All the money raised supports
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South winds at the start of the summary period produced a nice push of migrants into the area, but north-easterlies set in after the 13th and activity began to taper off towards the end of the week. New arrivals appeared almost daily including the first chipping sparrows and barn swallows of the spring on April
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Tree swallows (Sumiko Onishi) PIBO’s 14th migration research season kicked off at Fish Point Provincial Nature Reserve on April 1st under cloudy skies, with strong winds from the southwest, and a mild 9° C. April’s dawn chorus – robins, redwings, flickers, golden-crowned kinglets, and others – confirmed spring was here after a long, mostly
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We are pleased to be a partner in the coalition of individuals and organizations supporting the Keep Cats Safe & Save Bird Lives campaign. For more information and how you can support them, visit http://catsandbirds.ca/
PIBO’s fall migration season at Fish Point wrapped up on November 15th after 107 consecutive days of monitoring from August 1st. Bird activity during the final weeks of coverage was fairly typical for early November, although mild weather appeared to hold some species back, with only a few records this month for migrants like tundra
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A steady decline in the amount of bird activity in the netting area at Fish Point in the last two weeks of October was accompanied by a big increase of diurnal migration activity overhead. The totals will continue to build in November, but the last ten days of October was a good precursor, with tens-of-thousands
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Yellow-Rumped Warbler by Sumiko Onishi The first two weeks of October at Fish Point were a study in contrasts, with some of the largest numbers of migrants ever recorded at the site moving through the area from the 1st – 8 th , followed by a significant drop-off during the second week of October. Though
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