Long Point Bird Obs.

@TurtleMapper About average but a good year for Brown Creepers!

Here is our top nine species banded in 2024 1. Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1755 2. Yellow-rumped Warbler 1637 3. White-throated Sparrow 1573 4. Golden-crowned Kinglet 1211 5. Brown Creeper 767 6. Dark-eyed Junco 744 7. Tree Swallow 691 8. Magnolia Warbler 688 9. Red-winged Blackbird 513

The results are in from the 64th Long Point Christmas Bird Count. For the full summary check out our Sightings Board birdscanada.mediavalet.com/portals/LPBO Thank you to everyone who participated or volunteered we hope you enjoyed the day! @BirdsCanada @LPWBR

Heading home after six weeks at @LongPointBirdOb lots of cool birds passed through my grubby mits (catching 19 Northern Flickers at once in large mesh hawk nets is not to be recommended though...)

A small portion of the Red-winged Blackbirds and Common Grackles leaving their roosts this morning...fantastic sight! @LongPointBirdOb

Wow what a find this morning by volunteer Gaelen… while doing morning census at the Tip he spotted this Vermillion Flycatcher. This is only the 4th for Norfolk and well out of its range! @BirdsCanada @ofobirds @BirdsCanada_ON 📷 Caillie Monrad

@birdman_euston Surprised it’s not already on the list.

Attention #birdbanders !! ⚠️ This is often the unfortunate end result of Scaly Mite infections in migratory birds. Wash your hands, clean and isolate equipment that comes in touch with infected individuals. @BirdInTheBand

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.

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 @environmentca Get the full story at StateOfCanadasBirds.org Art by Shaylena Stenback. #stateofcanadasbirds

Fall migration is well underway at Long Point. Check out the LPBO Sightings Board for a summary of the highlights such as: Brown Booby, Willet, and Kentucky Warbler, just to name a few. @ABA @ofobirds @BirdsCanada birdscanada.org/lpbo 📷 -Least Bittern c/o Mike Poole

DeSimone et al. (2024) Persistent species relationships characterize migrating bird communities across stopover sites and seasons @PNASNews doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… | @AnousBirding @UMCES_AL @LongPointBirdOb @TheMarshWren @BULAbirds | #ornithology #birdmigration

New to the LPBO Wall of Science: Using migration data collected at five of North America’s longest running observatories, Dr. DeSimone and colleagues determined that relationships between species may help to shape their ecology during migration. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

An incredible finish to the 65th migration monitoring season at LPBO! Migration kept active with flycatchers finally waking up, and numerous rarities. Read more about our highlights on the lpbo sightings board - birdscanada.org/lpbo @BirdsCanada @ofobirds @ABABirdAlert

Thrilled to join our community members at the Long Point Ratepayers Association meeting in Port Rowan! @BirdsCanada

A Yellow-billed Cuckoo heralding the close of our Breakwater Research Station for any other successful season. It’s always hard to close a station as the migrants and surprises continue to trickle in. 🎥 Nelson Contardo @BirdsCanada

Bird observatorying: To embrace or succumb in the bird observatory life - Science, Conservation, Education, Training, Community, Teamwork, Camaraderie. Birds, Life, Love. @BirdsCanada @CMMNCanada

The sparrow plopped into the water where it was surely game over. But, no... it picked itself up out of the water and powered it’s way to land. The name of our hero... A Lincoln’s Sparrow! @birds.canada @vortexcanadabirding

A story of perseverance and resilience comes from the Tip this morning. Watched a sparrow coming in off the lake only for it to reach within 20 metres of the shoreline before it was pounced on by some marauding Bonaparte’s Gulls weighing in at 16x their target prey).

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