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James Bay
Shorebird Project 2016
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Longridge
Crew - 30 July to 13 August 2016 |
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Longridge Crew: Jean Iron (ON), Dan Froehlich
(Washington State), Felicia Sanders (South Carolina), Kathryn Hoo
(ON), Barb Charlton (ON), Allie Anderson (Crew leader, Trent University,
Peterborough) and
Amie MacDonald (ON). We thank the Moose Cree First Nation owners for
allowing us to use their comfortable camp. I sincerely thank my camp
mates for their companionship, good humour and excellent spotting of
birds and other wildlife. Their hard work and long hours in the
field are proof of their dedication to James Bay and shorebird
conservation. |
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Banding Crew: Allie,
Kathryn, Felicia, Dan and Amie. See more on page 4. |
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Shorebird
Survey Crew |
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Barb Charlton and I did daily surveys of
shorebird species where we walked transects along the shore,
counting and noting habitat usage of shorebirds. We also aged the
shorebirds. Special thanks to Barb for being an excellent observer
to survey with each day. |
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Felicia and Allie
joined Barb and me on several occasions. |
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Jean Iron |
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Aerial
Survey Crew |
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Veteran aerial surveyors Ken Ross and
Guy Morrison of the Canadian Wildlife Service. We congratulate Guy
Morrison for being appointed to The Order of Canada on 1 July
2016 for his "Arctic shorebird conservation". Guy and Ken's
shorebird research over many years has contributed immensely to our
knowledge of shorebirds. |
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On 10 August the helicopter with Guy and
Ken doing aerial surveys passed over us as we were stationed to
count on the ground. The chopper also carried a receiver which
recorded shorebirds with nanotags. There have been 16 historical
aerial shorebird surveys of the James Bay coast, the last was in
2009. |
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On our West Bay survey, Barb, Felicia
and Jean spotted this adult Semipalmated Sandpiper with blue flag
AK8. 2 August 2016. This Semipalmated Sandpiper was flagged in
Brazil on 31 January 2015 by David Mizrahi of the New Jersey Audubon
research team and aged at the time as a second year (almost a year
old, hatched the previous summer). Many thanks to Laura-Marie
Koitsch and David Mizrahi for information. |
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Juvenile Short-billed
Dowitcher on 9 August |
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Juvenile Greater
Yellowlegs on 3 August 2016 |
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End of page 2.
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