The Delta Marsh Bird Observatory set up at the Oak Hammock Marsh Wildlife Management Area again this year.
Highlights included:
• Partial spring and full fall banding seasons
• Hiring Meredith Stoesz & Kelsey Bell to be the BICs.
• Banding five days in spring and for fall 5 days a week from July 15 to August 11 and 7 days a week from August 12 to September 30.
• Supplementing with a great number of volunteers.
• Running 3 to 8 nets.
• Birds banded: 3958 (includes recaptures)
• Total species: 62
• Total mist net hours: 2110
• Birds per mist net hour: 1.88
• Visitors: 507
• Volunteers: 40
• Volunteer hours: 666
• Species caught for the first time:
• Sharp-shinned Hawk
• Facebook views: 13 915
• Instagram views: 21 259
• Partnered with Wetland Discovery Centre and banded for:
• 7 media interviews
• 12 Special events
• Offered our 3-day workshop
• Offered 15 workshops to 120 people.
• Partnered with Wildlife Haven to band
rehabilitated birds before release
• Organized a Great Canadian Bird-a-thon in the spring with 5 participants.
• We did 4 nights of Saw-whet Owl banding and caught 5 birds.
What We Caught:
