Point Pelee and Holiday Beach Trip Photos
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Point Pelee and Holiday Beach Trip Photos
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| On October 1, students of Ornithology from
the University of Windsor participated in a day-long field trip to
Point Pelee and Holiday Beach to study avian migration and the fall
behaviour of birds. Our morning started at Point Pelee National Park,
where we observed gulls, hawks, eagles, cormorants, wrens, chickadees,
woodpeckers, goldfinches, and thousands of migrating blue jays. We then
moved to Holiday Beach, counting hawks from the impressive hawk tower,
observing herons, egrets, and other birds in the marsh below, and
watching thousands more migrating blue jays and many migrating
sharp-shinned hawks. Phil Roberts and the bird
banding team at Holiday Beach lead a very informative demonstration of
passerine and hawk banding. We finished the day with a total of 38
species of birds seen and an excellent ornithological adventure. |
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Dan
Mennill and the students of the 2005 Ornithology class send a very big
"thank-you" to the staff of Point Pelee National Park and the Holiday
Beach
Conservation Area. We owe a special thanks to Phil Roberts, Bob
Hall-Brooks, Bob Pettit, and all of the bird banders and bird counters
at Holiday Beach for sharing their knowledge and expertise with
us! More about bird monitoring at Holiday Beach and other local
bird watching activities can be found at the Essex Region Conservation
Authority webpage: http://www.erca.org/.
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