I think I’ve found my new favourite way to do a #birdathon! High birding to travel ratio, low carbon footprint, high new bird to time ratio, and still lots of time for family and chorin. 6 hours. 140 species. All donations to support @longpointbirds tinyurl.com/lpbobirds

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Look up, look high, look often. American White Pelicans floating over the Birds Canada Headquarters yesterday.

Yesterday, Ontario’s migratory tree bats - Red, Silver-haired and Hoary were all classified as Endangered! This was a known outcome, predictable and preventable. Decades of high mortality at wind farms with little to no mitigation and no one will be held accountable. Now what?

Pheucticus ludovicianus, también conocido morbidamente como el degollado, es una especie de ave migratoria vistosa pero relativamente desconocida. En una primicia para #MotusWTS, instalamos transmisores en 4 individuos en Caldas con nuestro socio Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center

Conociendo de primera mano el poder del pico de esta especie, nos preocupamos que destruirían los transmisores. Sin embargo, segun los registros en motus.org, por lo menos un transmisor salió intacto de Colombia y fue detectado en Panamá y Costa Rica.

WOTH PARTY! One of the largest coordinated studies on the movement and survival of songbirds ever is currently underway with teams in 27 states, 1 province, and 7 countries in Latin America, deploying #MotusWTS tags on WOTH. Tagged 3 this AM before 0900. Birds Canada SELVA

Expensive Herring Gull perch. We’re happy to contribute!

A very cooperative #CanadaWarbler on a recently atlassing adventure in the -#ParrySound - #Algonquin region. #canadawarbler Birds Canada Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas Algonquin Provincial Park

DeSimone et al. (2024) Persistent species relationships characterize migrating bird communities across stopover sites and seasons PNASNews doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… | Stu Mackenzie UMCES-AL Long Point Bird Obs. Braddock Bay Bird Observatory Michigan State Bird Observatory | #ornithology #birdmigration

Birds Canada has released the 2024 Prairie Conservation Incentives Guide, a comprehensive resource to help you conserve, enhance, and restore vital prairie habitats for birds! Download the guide now: tinyurl.com/bdfyxf7c

Biologicals in front of this front? #onweather

For fun, I've estimated the mass of evacuated air required to support this simulated Hurricane's insanely low pressures. I get a figure of 1.3*10^14 kg of air. For context, if that mass was in the form of liquid water, it would fill 25% of Lake Erie.

MoMotus congrats everyone. Excellent contribution. #MotusWTS Birds Canada

The birds have spoken. Stay tuned. - Les oiseaux ont parlé. Restez à l’écoute.

Assessing the population status of 463 bird species that regularly occur in Canada. The 2024 State of Canada’s Birds is a partnership between Birds Canada and Environment Canada Get the full story at StateOfCanadasBirds.org Art by Shaylena Stenback. #stateofcanadasbirds

The LPBO sightings board is. Visits birdscanada.org/lpbo to explore. Highlights: Ross’s Goose, Eurasian Collared Dove, Pacific Loon, Buff-breasted Sandpiper 📷 Trish Snider, Piping Plover, Neotropic Cormorant, Glossy Ibis 📷 Mike Poole. Orange-crowned Warbler 📷 Max Hellicar.

Tracking Chesapeake Bay animal movements via collaborative acoustic telemetry networks! @Mariahlivernois postdoc work now published @FSBI #JFB! We really enjoyed working w Matt Ogburn SERC Fisheries Conservation Lab on this! Funding: NOAA Ches Bay office. COLSA doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15…

Some excellent natural history reading about Little Gulls on Hudson Bay lowlands. bioone.org/journals/water…

Last Saturday at #COP16 we were part of panel on how movement data informs conservation with Instituto Humboldt. There is no better example of this than the #MotusWTS which tracks birds with radio tags. In Colombia, SELVA hosts 16 Motus stations, which generate 100s of detections