The see-saw of spring continued this week. When the winds weren’t coming off the lake, we actually saw spring migration surge, with two standout count days delivering strong passerine and raptor movement, including an excellent sapsucker flight and one of the season’s better showings for buteo hawks. Woodpecker Winds...
In 2024, a multi-national group of bird conservation partners across the hemisphere initiated a massive research project to track the survival and migration of Wood Thrush across its breeding and non-breeding ranges over the next two years to target conservation efforts for this important forest-breeding bird.
It’s been a slow crawl into April at the Indiana Dunes Longshore Tower. So far, just one count has been logged—on April 3—and persistent north winds off the lake have kept things in a holding pattern since. The forecast doesn’t give us much hope of a shift anytime soon,...
For the past several years, my fall evenings have been dedicated to studying Northern Saw-whet Owls. My journey into owl banding began when friends invited me to the Yellowwood State Forest banding station and offered me my first up-close encounter with these elusive birds. I had been interested in...
How did March feel for all of you? The winds of late March at the Indiana Dunes Longshore Tower weren’t always blowing in our favor. We experienced a string of slow days this past week as less-than-ideal weather patterns kept bird movement on the lakefront to a minimum. But...
The Chasing Melody project has taken a significant step forward in understanding Wood Thrush migration, thanks to new Motus Wildlife Tracking System stations installed in Honduras, strategically located on the northern Caribbean coast.
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