Spring has arrived in the boreal forest which filled with the melodies of songbirds this week at the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory. Many of our short distance migrants have established their breeding territories or have become rare as they travel to different habitats or farther north. Replacing them has been our long-distance migrants with most of our warbler species now present at the station. As such we are entering the most diverse period of the year and will be running our Great Canadian Birdathon Fundraiser on May 21. If you would like to support our Team Tanager, check out their Birdathon donation page. 

The recent highlight at the station was a Yellow-billed Loon on May 12 which…

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