Deep Forests and Small Farms
Fieldwork has kicked into full gear as the action-packed month of June is just a week away. Our Louisiana Waterthrush surveys are nearing completion for the 2012 season. Soon I [...]
Category Archives: Breeding Bird Studies
From Big Clear to Devil & Gibson
Land O’ Lakes indeed! Frontenac Provincial Park lies at the southern tip of the great Canadian Shield with its astounding proliferation of lakes, wetlands and rivers. The map clipping above [...]
Whites, Ceruleans and Louisianas
. Great to be back in Frontenac this week! My first memorable observation of the season was of two black bears encountered along Devil Lake Road on an early morning [...]
M.A.P.S Visits 4 & 5 – 2011
The July-early August period of the Monitoring Avian Productivity & Survivorship (MAPS) season is important to our annual assessment of productivity rates. During this time a critical shift occurs from [...]
M.A.P.S Visit 3 – 2011
The third round of visits for the 2011 Monitoring Avian Productivity & Survivorship (MAPS) season were completed on June 27 (BLAK), June 29 (MABO) and June 30 (RRID). The weather [...]
the Nest Files – Prairie Warbler
. Prairie Warbler (Dendroica discolor) . Nidiologicals – Peck and James (1987) and Nolan,V.,Jr., E.D.Ketterson, and C.A.Buerkle (1999) Habitat – Dry, early successional shrubland habitats ranging from pine plantations, dunes, [...]
M.A.P.S Visit 2 – 2011
Our third season of M.A.P.S is now approaching its halfway point. Our second round of visits to the three stations was a little more active than the first, especially at [...]
