While the intention was to summarize the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory’s 2024 Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) program, high winds followed by rain caused several delays and we could not complete our MAPS efforts.

Above: Say hello to the 109th species banded by the LSLBO over 31 years of banding efforts – a migrating Broad-winged Hawk.

Yet, in what we have finished of our last period of MAPS was a first for our station: banding a Broad-winged Hawk who became the 109 species we have ever banded! While a few do breed locally, Broad-winged Hawks are not that common around any of our stations and even during migration we will only see a handful flying alone overhead. Tra…

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