PIBO Update

Sharp-shinned Hawk                                                                                   Photo Sumiko Onishi 2016   This has been a strangely quiet start to May. Ten days in and we have yet to see any large-scale movements of migrants. As with the last summary period, winds remained predominantly out of the north and east, working against any birds heading for Canada. Excepting May 1st, we

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

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

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

                          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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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