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P.O. Box 24001 Market Square
Windsor, ON N8Y 4Y8

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(migration monitoring, banding station)
585 South Shore Road
Pelee Island, ON N0R 1M0
(519) 724-2829

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Thank you to Paul Jones, Mike V.A. Burrell, Richard K. Cooper, Sumiko Onishi, and all the talented and persistent bird photographers who generously shared their images with PIBO to enhance your enjoyment of this website.

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Emilie Snethlague 1868-1929 Born in Germany in an

Emilie Snethlague 1868-1929

Born in Germany in an era where women had very little to almost no accessibility to school, she gained her doctorate in Natural History. She then moved to Brazil and became a curator for the bird collection in the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi in Belem. A fiery woman that lead multiple expedition in the different states of Brazil in order to build an Amazonian bird collection. Her “Catàlogo das aves amazônicas” became the largest amazonian bird collection. She was also the first woman to become the director of a scientific institution in South America. She is remembered today for her personality, her work and perseverance. In one of the expeditions she amputated one of her own finger after a terrible infection had surged from a piranha bite. To commemorate an incredible figure in ornithology, the Museum of Natural Sciences named an expedition after her. This expedition was made to sample the one river Emilie Snethlague could not do : the Jurua River. In honor of Dr. Snethlague, the expedition will be lead and done exclusively by women.

https://glauciaornito.wixsite.com/snethlageexpedition

https://sciendo.com/abstract/journals/host/10/1/article-p71.xml

#ornithology #emiliesnethlague #bird #womeninornithology #brazil #birds #science

Bird-friendly windows don’t have to be boring! T

Bird-friendly windows don’t have to be boring! These windows downtown feature drawings that help break up the reflective windows, making them less of a threat for birds

Tall glass buildings like these can be a hotspot f

Tall glass buildings like these can be a hotspot for bird window collisions. Facing the Detroit river, birds mistake the reflection for an open sky and water. Only a few feet away from another bird, our team found another collision victim this week.

Our first woman in Ornithology is : Eleanor D’Ar

Our first woman in Ornithology is : Eleanor D’Arborea

Born a Sardinian noblewoman and later became Ruler of Sardinia, Italy in 1383. As a ruler, she proved her war strategy useful to defeat the Aragon invasion. She created the Carta de Logu in 1395 which is a charter of rights. This was the first of it’s kind including the protection of women’s right as well as giving women the right of inheritance and property rights in Sardinia. This chart was implemented until 1827 when the document was replaced by the Holy Roman Emperor rules. We can suggest that she was the first ornithologist to legislate protective rules on a bird species; the falcons. In 1392, a law was commissioned which protected bird’s nest from illegal hunters. In the 19th Century, a falcon was named after the Ruler as Eleanora’s Falcon.

https://xeno-canto.org/species/Falco-eleonorae

https://birdfact.com/birds/eleonoras-falcon#distribution

https://badassladiesofhistory.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/eleanor-of-arborea/

#birdsofinstagram #birds #falcons #peleeislandbirdobservatory #womensupportingwomen #ornithology #womeninhistory

Here’s Dante, our education and outreach coordin

Here’s Dante, our education and outreach coordinator with a short reel on how to install the @featherfriendly window collision tape. We still have over 150 kits for local businesses! You can email us at education@pibo.com for more details, otherwise check out flap.org for resources on preventing window collisions

Ornithology you say ? 🕊While our team accesses

Ornithology you say ? 🕊While our team accesses more bird collisions in the Windsor Area, discover weekly posts of different women who have pioneered in the field of ornithology. Learn how these women across the globe have contributed to this field and much more. Stay tuned for more post in the upcoming weeks!

#peleeislandbirdobservatory #ornithology #birdsofwindsor #bird #birdsafebuildings #wildlife

As we expected, our team’s monitoring efforts ha

As we expected, our team’s monitoring efforts have shown us that downtown Windsor’s tall glass buildings can be hotspots for bird collisions! We will be collecting data using the Global Bird Collision Mapper - a web app for reporting bird collisions around the world. We encourage you all to report bird window strikes to contribute to our understanding of this problem. RIP to this little robin :(

The month of June is devoted to The Great Canadian

The month of June is devoted to The Great Canadian Giving Challenge. For every $3 donated to PIBO, we receive one ballot.
#GivingChallengeCA

Calling all Windsor-Essex small businesses! Are yo

Calling all Windsor-Essex small businesses! Are you interested in making your business bird-friendly? As a part of our initiative to make Windsor a #birdfriendlycity, we’ll be distributing over 200 @featherfriendly window collisions kits, free of charge. Contact us to learn more about this program and how to get your own kit.

It was a beautiful day for a picnic for our last e

It was a beautiful day for a picnic for our last event with youth employees Davina and Lakshmi. Everyone enjoyed plenty of food catered by Thyme to Go catering, did a bird walk in the park and played games. It was a joy to work with the two young ladies the past 5 months! We will miss them.

Sign up for our Willistead Park Picnic 🧺 this S

Sign up for our Willistead Park Picnic 🧺 this Saturday, May 28!

-Davina

Come birdwatching with us! Sign up using the googl

Come birdwatching with us! Sign up using the google form (the link on our story).

-Davina

#birdwatching #ojibway #ojibwe

We had an awesome day at Optimist community centre

We had an awesome day at Optimist community centre for World Migratory Bird Day!
🦆🦅🌳🌱
We played lots of games, went bird watching, listened to presenters, and gave away lots of cool prizes in our raffle!

Special thanks to @poojbakes and @yasmeenbakerywindsor for the delicious treats!!!

-Lakshmi and Davina

#worldmigratorybirdday #naturecanada #birdingontario #windsorpubliclibrary

Our annual online auction has so many great items

Our annual online auction has so many great items to bid on. But only 5 more days left of bidding! Link in bio.

In our upcoming World Migratory Bird Day Event we

In our upcoming World Migratory Bird Day Event we will have various activities, presentations about light pollution and bird migration, as well as snacks and pastries available for everyone. Please sign up using the QR code or the google form link in the WMBD story highlights.

-Davina

#wmbd #wmbd2022 #worldmigratorybirdday #migratorybirdday

In our upcoming World Migratory Bird Day Event we

In our upcoming World Migratory Bird Day Event we will have various activities, presentations about light pollution and bird migration, as well as snacks and pastries available for everyone. Please sign up using the QR code or the google form link in the WMBD story highlights.

-Davina

#wmbd #wmbd2022 #worldmigratorybirdday #migratorybirdday

A shout out to all those behind the desk folks at

A shout out to all those behind the desk folks at wildlife organizations!
@naturecanada_
@ncc_cnc
@birds.canada
@ontarionature

Join us for our World Migratory Bird Day event on

Join us for our World Migratory Bird Day event on May 14 from 6:00-9:00 p.m at optimist community centre. More information to come about the event.

-Davina

#peleeisland #peleebird #wmbd #worldmigratorybirdday #birdday2022

This year’s #worldmigratorybirdday is focused on

This year’s #worldmigratorybirdday is focused on the impacts of light pollution on our shared birds. There are many things we can all do to reduce artificial light at night. See more tips at migratorybirdday.org/takeaction!

-Davina

#birdday2022 #dimthelightsforbirdsatnight

Earth day was a success! so many cool venders! –

Earth day was a success! so many cool venders!

-Davina and Lakshmi

#earthday #birdfriendly #pibo #ontario #naturecanada #birdingontario

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