Now that the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory is monitoring breeding songbirds, we want to discuss some visitors that can hurt our birds: people and their pets. Last fall we met eleven dogs during monitoring at the station, five of which were off-leash. One uncontrolled dog even charged into one of our (thankfully empty) nets! So far in 2024, we have met thirteen dogs – two of which were off-leash. While it should be obvious why we do not want uncontrolled dogs around our nets and the defenseless birds they capture, unleashed dogs can create more subtle problems.
Free-running, off-leash dogs are predators which can cause nest abandonment and injure or kill ground nesting birds and other yo…
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