Birding News

2005 in Review

This November PIBO will have completed its third year of migration. The program has advanced significantly in 2005. In the spring, two full-time staff conducted a daily census, recorded visual observations of migrants, and operated mist-nets on sixty-three mornings from April 5th to July 6th. Three full-time staff have operated the station this fall for eighty days from August 4th to October 22nd. This entailed seventy-five consecutive days of bird banding.

All told, PIBO has compiled more than 140 daily migration counts in 2005: staff have documented 192 species on site, and more than 4800 birds of eighty-seven species have been captured during the banding phase of the project. And we still have three weeks remaining in the fall season.

A complete synopsis of the 2005 migration study will be included in PIBO’s 2005 Final Report, which will be posted on the website by December 15th, 2005.

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