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On Saturday September
26, University of Windsor's third-year Ornithology Class took a
day-long field trip to Point Pelee National Park and Holiday Beach
Migration Observatory. With record-breaking attendance of 72 students,
we had a hands-on study of avian biodiversity and the biology of
migration. It was a great day for watching accipiter hawks, with
hundreds of Sharp-shinned Hawks passing over our heads at the tip of
Point Pelee and the Cattail Marsh Boardwalk. In the afternoon, the
knowledgable citizen scientists at the Holiday Beach Migration
Observatory showed us how they capture and band hawks and songbirds,
and how they monitor the migration of diverse birds along Lake Erie's
north shore. The east wind did us no favours in the number of birds
captured throughout the afternoon, nevertheless it was a great learning
experience. By the end of the day, we had seen 32 different species of
birds, and had an outstanding day of biology. All photographs on this
page were taken by Dan Mennill and Ornithology students Marcus Leung
and Kieran O'Hagan-Wong.
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Dr. Dan Mennill, the
72 students of the 2015 Ornithology course, and
graduate teaching
assistants Alana Demko and Ines Moran wish to extend our sincere
thanks to the
Holiday Beach
Migration Observatory for sharing their
knowledge with us, especially the citizen scientists at the hawk tower,
at the passerine banding station, and at the hawk banding station. We
are so thankful that you spent
the afternoon sharing your knowledge with us.
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