The Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory (LSLBO) is in the thick of Fall Migration Monitoring with our summer residents quickly vanishing. However, since we have officially passed any chance to complete our MAPS (Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship) operations, let’s do a preliminary roll-up of our MAPS results.

MAPS is a continent-wide program monitoring songbird population changes to conserve birds and their habitats. By banding during the breeding season, population parameters such as productivity (young produced) and survival (adults returning to breed) may be estimated. Conservation efforts can then target causes of population declines, such as poor breeding success or poor win…

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