A news or blog update by PIBO staff.
Red- Shouldered Hawk by Sumiko Onishi The second half of October was quiet, with few birds banded. With the unseasonably warm fall weather and persistent south winds, birds seem to be rather slower to migrate than in previous years. Very few ducks and waterfowl have been seen so far and even as late as […]
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The Pelee Island Bird Observatory will host three public owling nights this fall. Come join us for a chance to see Ontario’s smallest owl. There’s no guarantee we’ll catch any, but please stop by for some mulled wine and cider, owls or not! Where: PIBO Cottage (corner of Stone Rd. & S. Shore Rd., Pelee
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The overcast and rainy weather from the end of September continued into the first few days of October, accompanied by south and south-east winds. Scattered showers made it difficult for the nets to be opened for the whole 6-hour banding period and few birds were captured. Some birds were still moving through, though: large
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While September 16th was a moderately busy day, with many Swainson’s Thrushes and Grey-cheeked Thrushes heard calling first thing in the morning and a diverse group of warbler species seen in the netting area, the 17th saw Pelee Island drenched by thunderstorms. Sumiko braved the elements to conduct the daily census, and saw only three
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Black-throated Blue warbler by S.Onishi September started off with a high diversity of warbler species and a busy few days of banding as northeastern winds helped to push migrants south – 120 birds were banded on September 1st, and 92 on September 2nd. The majority of the birds captured were Swainson’s Thrushes, Veerys, Magnolia
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PIBO’s 14th consecutive season of fall migration coverage got underway at Fish Point on August 1st with the 90-minute morning census and some additional standardized observations. The census will be conducted each day until November 15th along with PIBO’s daily six-hour mist netting and bird banding effort, which started on August 15th and will
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All of us at PIBO sadly report that Ramsay Cook, a long-standing friend and clear-eyed board member, has died. It is a shock and we’ll all miss him in so many ways. Ramsay was a marvelous friend, an elegant thinker, an impressive ethical citizen, and above all a formidable historian. We send our condolences to
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Assorted water birds at Fish Point Photo: Garth Casbourn The days are getting longer, and the mornings ever earlier, while all the woods expand. Though we are still a week and a half from the solstice, we’ve been experiencing some very warm and muggy weather, and occasional thunder showers, small harbingers of the electrical perturbations
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Eastern Screech Owls Photo: Sumiko Onishi The spring migration is winding down in these last weeks of May. The end-of-season migrants like vireos and flycatchers are more in evidence now than the wood warblers, and most of the warblers we’re still encountering have likely taken up residence on the island. Some of the Yellow Warblers nesting
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Worm-eating Warbler Photo: Garth Casbourn It finally hit, the big wave we’d been waiting for! The 11th began inauspiciously enough, with rain falling early in the morning, which prevented us from opening the nets. Those of you familiar with migratory fallouts may think the rain was a good sign, but the wind had been out
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