[Ontbirds] Great Egrets with red and white leg bands

>Hi Birders, > About a month ago, we banded approximately 100 young flightless Great Egrets > at colonies in Georgian Bay (Lake Huron) and in eastern Lake Ontario. The > young birds are probably now flying and dispersing throughout southern > Ontario. They are banded with field readable red

[Ontbirds] WANTED: Photos and notes on birds with aberrant plumage

Jon Ruddy's post from yesterday of a leucistic Long-tailed Duck at Sandbanks Provincial Park prompted us to pre-empt an 'Information Wanted' announcement we have in the upcoming December issue of Ontario Birds. Given all the birding activity in the next couple of weeks (the Niagara Gull

[Ontbirds] Color marked Herring Gulls

Hello Ontbirders, I was asked to post a request on Ontbirds from researcher Bruce Buckingham in order to alert birders here in the Lake Ontario-Lake Erie area and beyond to be on the lookout for color-banded Herring Gulls dispersing from his study area in locations near Port Clinton, Ohio,

[Ontbirds] The April issue of Ontario Birds....posted with permission.

For members of OFO, you have or will be receiving in the next day or two the April issue of Ontario Birds; it has 56 pages comprised of five articles. The cover painting of Barn Swallows at a nest by Barry Kent MacKay is an artistic nod-into an article by Al Sandilands and Derek

[Ontbirds] Loggerhead Shrikes and Upland Sandpipers at Wiley Rd, Carden Alvar, Kirkfield

Hi Ontbirders, This got lost in cyberspace for 12 hours We drove and birded the 35 km birding route at the Carden Alvar this afternoon (Friday) from approximately 11:20 AM to 2:00 PM; we used Ron Pittaway's Birding Guide to Carden Alvar (OFO News Vol. 18 No. 1 February 2000) as our guide.

[Ontbirds] Sandhill Cranes, Trumpeter Swan(s) and a Rough-legged Hawk along McKinnon and Strongville roads and Concession 2, Minesing Swamp at Angus

Hi Ontbirders, Yesterday afternoon, we travelled the above roads in this wonderful wetland area looking for early migrants. Along McKinnon Rd. headed north, just where the blacktop ends, we heard 3-4 Sandhill Cranes calling off to the NW as well as about 40 swans in a field 300-400m to the

[Ontbirds] Ontario Birds - Contents of the December issue

The December issue of Ontario Birds has gone to press; it has 64 pages comprised of seven articles. This December installment, we are sure, will become known as the Piping Plover issue. We have a glorious cover painting of a Piping Plover by Barry Kent MacKay and three articles discussing: the