Marsh Monitoring Workshops Offered South of Border
9 March 2006 - The Great Lakes
Commission and Bird Studies Canada, with the support of the St.
Mary's River Binational Public Advisory Council and the Lower Fox
Basin Partnership, are looking for outdoor adventurers to be trained
as amphibian and/or bird monitors (no prior experience necessary)
for wetland areas in the St. Mary's River region of Michigan and the
Lower Green Bay and Fox River region of Wisconsin. The St. Mary's
session is being held on 1 April 2006 and the Lower Fox Basin
Partnership workshop is being held 8 April 2006. Anyone interested
in attending should contact Kathy Jones by e-mail at
aqsurvey@bsc-eoc.org, or
phone 1-888-448-2473 ext. 212. Financial support for this project is
provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Great Lakes
National Program Office.
Marsh
Monitoring Workshop Offered in Belleville
9 March 2006 - The Marsh Monitoring Program and the Bay
of Quinte Public Advisory Committee encourage interested naturalists
to attend a Marsh Monitoring Program workshop at Quinte Conservation
in Belleville, ON on 28 March 2006. Anyone interested in attending
should contact Kathy Jones by e-mail,
aqsurvey@bsc-eoc.org, or
phone 1-888-448-2473 ext.212.
The Frogs are Singing!
9 Marsh 2005 - Kathy Jones,
Aquatic Surveys Volunteer and Data Coordinator, reminds Marsh
Monitoring Program (MMP) participants in the Great Lakes region that
frog surveys will begin shortly. "MMP kits are on their way to
people who survey southern routes" Kathy states, "they will be
mailed to volunteers in the central and northern regions over the
next few days." Bird volunteers still have a little time to wait but
those who survey amphibians should start watching the thermometer in
order to catch the first amphibian survey window.
Ontario Bird Banding Association Celebrates 50 Years
8 March 2006 - To mark its 50th
Anniversary, the Ontario Bird Banding Association (OBBA) is holding
a two-day meeting on 25-26 March 2006 at Bird Studies Canada’s
headquarters in Port Rowan, ON. Several BSC staff will be
participating in the meeting, with presentations by Scott Petrie
about Long Point Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Fund’s scaup
research project, Dawn Laing speaking about the southern Ontario
Bald Eagle project, and Stu Mackenzie talking about fallouts of
migrants at Long Point Bird Observatory. On Sunday, 26 March there
will be a special OBBA Anniversary Luncheon at the Port Rowan
Community Centre. Tickets for the luncheon are $25 and must be
purchased in advance by contacting Audrey Heagy,
aheagy@bsc-eoc.org,
1-888-448-2473 Ext. 214. OBBA is the organization that founded the Long Point
Bird Observatory in 1960.
New BC Bird Guide Available
7 March 2006 - The latest book
of BSC staff member, Dick Cannings, titled "The Birds of
Southwestern British Columbia" is now available in book stores. The
handy little guide covers more than 200 species of birds found on
the southern coast of British Columbia and adjacent mountains, all
illustrated with more than 400 photos. The book has proven very
popular and has held on to position #1 on the BC Bestsellers List
for a month! You can read more about the book by
clicking here.
Incredible
Recoveries of Long Point Birds
7 March 2006 - Every year about
50 birds banded at Long Point Bird Observatory (LPBO) are recovered
around North America and even as far as Central and South America.
In 2005, some particularly interesting recoveries occurred. Two Bald
Eagles that were banded as eaglets in Essex County (one in 1998 and
one in 2004) as part of the Southern Ontario Bald Eagle Monitoring
Program were recently recovered. The eldest of the two was
discovered near Brownsville, Ohio after having been hit by a car.
Recovering a seven-year-old bird provides useful evidence about
potential breeding locations of southern Ontario Bald Eagle
nestlings. The second eaglet was barely a year old when it was found
injured at the Monroe Power Plant in Michigan. She is now spending
her days in the Columbus Zoo.
In other recovery news, a
Prothonotary Warbler banded near Holiday Beach, ON in 1999 was
recovered at Rondeau Provincial Park in 2005. This is the second
time that a Prothonotary Warbler has been documented to hop between
isolated refuges of habitat in southern Ontario - another bird
originally banded in Backus Woods near Long Point, ON was recovered
at Rondeau in 2002. Lastly, the first ever recovery of an
LPBO-banded Whip-poor-will was recently reported. The unusual
discovery occurred in Cleveland, Ohio one month after it was banded
at Long Point.
Data obtained from recovered bands
reported by the public are a critical part of bird banding. If you
or someone you know finds a banded bird, please call 1-800-327-BAND
(2263) or report it online by
clicking
here. You will receive a certificate of appreciation and
banding details about your recovered bird.
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