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James Bay
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Longridge
Point from 30 July to 13 August 2016 |
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Adult male Hudsonian
Godwit at Longridge on James Bay, Ontario, Canada on 31 July 2016. |
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In summer 2016, the Canadian Wildlife
Service, Royal Ontario Museum, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
and Forestry (OMNRF), Bird Studies Canada, Trent University, Nature
Canada and the
Moose Cree First Nation operated four shorebird research camps in
Southern James Bay. They are: Longridge Point, Little Piskwamish
Point, Little Piskwamish South and North Point. I was at Longridge from 30 July to 13 August 2016. |
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Longridge Point at High Tide |
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Longridge Camp is on a ridge in
the boreal forest about 5.7 km from the tip of Longridge. The Wrack
is a black mass of kelp (seaweed) teeming with invertebrates, which
attracted hundreds of shorebirds. West Bay is a large bay to the
west of the ridge. Motus tower records nanotagged birds. We carried our water from the freshwater creek. |
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Our daily shorebird
surveys included resighting endangered rufa Red Knot flags such as
this green flag MMH from the United States. 10 August 2016 |
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Video:
Red Knots feeding at Longridge on James Bay |
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Juvenile Red Knots on
10 August 2016. |
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Juvenile Marbled
Godwits on 3 August 2016. A small disjunct population breeds in the
prairie-like coastal marshes and on Akimiski Island in Nunavut.
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Juvenile Solitary
Sandpiper on 7 August 2016.
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Video of Solitary. Note the flies or invertebrates running about on
the kelp (The Wrack) |
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Juvenile Least
Sandpiper on 31 July 2016 |
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Adult Ruddy Turnstone
in worn breeding plumage and molting White-rumped Sandpiper on 11
August 2016. |
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Juvenile Pectoral
Sandpiper on 10 August 2016. |
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