Southwestern Manitoba Mixed-grass Prairie IBA​ Blitz

We would be monitoring breeding birds, however in this case we will target Species At Risk, especially Sprague's Pipit, Chestnut-collared Longspur, Loggerhead Shrike, Ferruginous Hawk and Baird's Sparrow, plus other rarities such as Grasshopper Sparrow and Bobolink. 

 

Last year we did this in 5 teams and that would be the intention for 2016. We also managed to get permission to enter a few properties and again, we would hope to replicate this. We would start early and meet for lunch at the Chicken Chef in Melita. We have a few folk who will likely come from Winnipeg but again we would love getting volunteers from the Southwest. I would also be really keen to team up some local people with our IBA volunteers.