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Piping Plover

WPBO’s 2020 Plovers-in-Residence

Piping Plover monitoring at WPBO has ushered in a change of pace for me: though I work just a few hundred yards from my old station at the waterbird shack, I now spend a good portion of my time intently looking at just two birds when, before, I spent my time intently looking for all [...]

2020-07-07T15:03:13-04:00June 23rd, 2020|Field Notes|Comments Off on WPBO’s 2020 Plovers-in-Residence
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Bad Weather, Good Birding: WPBO Waterbird Count Update May 9-15

There are two types of bad weather at Whitefish Point: bad weather with good birds, and bad weather with no birds. Yesterday (May 14), finally, the sky started spitting shorebirds. Yes, the sky also was spitting (and at times, pouring) 38-degree rain for the entire 8-hour count, but that is the typical tradeoff for a [...]

2020-05-18T10:54:14-04:00May 15th, 2020|Migration Counts|Comments Off on Bad Weather, Good Birding: WPBO Waterbird Count Update May 9-15
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