{"id":1187,"date":"2013-08-28T23:56:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T23:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2013-08-28T23:56:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T23:56:55","slug":"pibo-migration-summary-august-11-20-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/pibo-migration-summary-august-11-20-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"PIBO Migration Summary (August 11 &#8211; 20, 2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1188\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1188\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1188\" title=\"Least Sandpiper, by Sumiko Onishi\" src=\"http:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lesa-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"Least Sandpiper, by Sumiko Onishi\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Least Sandpiper, by Sumiko Onishi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Shorebirds and swallows continued to move through the area in moderate numbers from the 11<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 20<sup>th<\/sup> and there was a slight but noticeable increase in migrant songbird activity as well. Nineteen fall \u2018firsts\u2019 were noted including ones-and-twos of eight warbler species. Daily species diversity at the station ranged from a low of 29 on August 11<sup>th<\/sup> to a high of 51 on the 18<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Gull numbers reached a near station-high on August 11<sup>th<\/sup> when almost 5000 birds were estimated at the tip on the morning census \u2013 mostly Ring-billed along with small numbers of Bonaparte\u2019s, Herring, and Great Black-backs. Common Terns were numerous on the 14<sup>th<\/sup>, with 1200 birds noted. Shorebirds were observed on most days, with five species recorded on the 12<sup>th<\/sup> including 11 Sanderlings, 3 Semipalmated Plovers, Semipalmated and Least Sandpipers.<\/p>\n<p>An Osprey and six shorebird <em>spp<\/em>. were observed on August 15<sup>th<\/sup> along with a few songbirds including American Redstart and Northern Waterthrush. A Sora calling at Fox Pond on the 16<sup>th<\/sup> and a Greater Yellowlegs and Canada Warbler the next day were both fall \u2018firsts\u2019. August 17<sup>th<\/sup> was the most active morning at the station since coverage began on the 1<sup>st<\/sup>, with 51 species noted, including eight warbler species, along with a nice variety of others. Fall \u2018firsts\u2019 included Bobolink, Ovenbird, Blackburnian and Black-and-white Warbler.<\/p>\n<p>The 19<sup>th<\/sup> was equally active \u2013 fifty species were tallied during the morning coverage period. A Chestnut-sided Warbler was new for the season. Other species on the day included small numbers of Least and Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Barn and Bank Swallow, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Wood Thrush, and another eight warbler <em>spp.<\/em> The wind returned to the south on the evening of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> and migrant numbers tapered off on the final day of the summary period.<\/p>\n<p><em>PIBO\u2019s next migration update will be posted on September 2<sup>nd<\/sup>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shorebirds and swallows continued to move through the area in moderate numbers from the 11th \u2013 20th and there was a slight but noticeable increase in migrant songbird activity as well. Nineteen fall \u2018firsts\u2019 were noted including ones-and-twos of eight warbler species. Daily species diversity at the station ranged from a low of 29 on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[34,93,92,31,41,27,95,33,40,53,48,94,63],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pibo-update","tag-banding","tag-bank-swallow","tag-barn-swallow","tag-birds","tag-essex-county","tag-fall-migration","tag-flycatchers","tag-migration","tag-pelee-island","tag-pelee-island-bird-observatory","tag-pibo","tag-thrushes","tag-warblers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}