60 Magnolia Warblers were fitted with Motus tags (small radio transmitters) at Long Point’s Tip this spring as part of research seeking to improve our understanding of their migration ecology. @birdscanada.bsky.social 🇨🇦🧪🌎 #birdringing

A highlight of this spring at Long Point’s Tip was finding this Yellow-throated Warbler during census on 28 May. It soon found its way into a mist net and was ringed, aged and sexed as a second-year male. A vagrant to Canada, it was the 8th Tip record. #birdringing

Circumnavigation of Long Point on Wednesday took us to our two remote Purple Martin colonies, where we collected cloacal swab samples for research on antibiotic resistance genes and ringed 128 chicks. ⛵️🧪🌎 #birdringing

We ringed a brood of Osprey in Port Rowan yesterday as part of collaborative research into how contaminants affect their reproductive ecology. It was a great opportunity to engage the local community, with >50 people coming to watch! @birdscanada.bsky.social 🌎🧪 #birdbanding

We checked on our Purple Martin nests at @longpointbirds.bsky.social yesterday to support research on how antibiotic resistance genes vary between adults and nestlings. 🇨🇦🌎🧪 #birdbanding

Eastern Whip-poor-will captured for tag retrieval this week as part of @birdscanada.bsky.social research on breeding ecology and habitat utilisation. Great to see these cryptic creatures of the night up close! 🇨🇦🌎🧪 #birdringing

It’s Tree Swallow chick time! 342 nestlings ringed between our two long-term study sites in Port Rowan over the past week. @longpointbirds.bsky.social 🇨🇦🌎🧪 #birdbanding

The first Scarlet Tanagers of the spring were ringed at the Tip this morning! 🇨🇦🪶 @longpointbirds.bsky.social

Eastern Bluebird and Great Crested Flycatcher at the Tip this week. Both are uncommon captures in our mist nets. @longpointbirds.bsky.social #birdringing

A varied and full day, as always, at @longpointbirds.bsky.social! A new eBird record count of Red-throated Divers for Norfolk County (ebird.org/checklist/S3...) and 40 km travelled for the Ontario Shorebird Survey, with two trailer loads of debris removed from the beach. 🇨🇦🌎🪶

Tree Swallow nest monitoring is underway at Long Point for the summer as part of a long-term research project that has been running here since 1969. They’ll be on eggs any day now! 🇨🇦🪶🧪🌎 @longpointbirds.bsky.social

Black-and-white Warbler at the @longpointbirds.bsky.social Tip on Tuesday: the first of the year to be ringed here 🇨🇦 #birdringing

Baltimore Orioles have been arriving in force at Long Point’s Tip over the last couple of weeks! 🇨🇦 #birdringing

Piping Plover at the Tip on Monday! A major rarity at Long Point, but they breed on the Pennsylvanian shore of Lake Erie, 42 km south of here. This one was ringed there as a hatchling last year! @longpointbirds.bsky.social #CanadianBirding

An arrival of Eastern White-crowned Sparrows at Long Point’s Tip this morning saw 15 ringed. One of the absolute best birds! #birdringing

Red-headed Woodpecker at the @longpointbirds.bsky.social Tip research station this morning. Some of the finest secondaries out there! 🇨🇦 #birdringing

The Blue Jays have arrived! @longpointbirds.bsky.social 🇨🇦🪶

A spectacular passage of Long-tailed Ducks at @longpointbirds.bsky.social this morning set a new eBird record count for Norfolk County, with thousands streaming past in lashing rain. ebird.org/checklist/S3... #CanadianBirding

Yesterday morning saw 142 birds ringed at the Tip before boating to the mainland for supplies. These included two rarities: Grasshopper Sparrow and Yellow Palm Warbler! @longpointbirds.bsky.social 🇨🇦🪶

Migration monitoring is underway for the spring season at the @longpointbirds.bsky.social Tip research station! The first morning of trapping saw 166 individuals ringed today, including two Northern Mockingbirds. 🇨🇦 #birdbanding

Five days at @longpointbirds.bsky.social Breakwater this week. Highlights included Ruffed Grouse and Golden Eagle (each with three previous eBird records for the site), plus a gobble of Wild Turkeys and some Brown Thrashers. ebird.org/tripreport/4... #CanadianBirding

Good morning, Breakwater! We’re setting up our remote research station for the spring season in a -5°C blizzard. Golden Eagle was today’s census highlight. @longpointbirds.bsky.social

Week one in my new role as Field Operations Coordinator at @longpointbirds.bsky.social. Migration monitoring is in full swing at Old Cut, with a few hundred kinglets and creepers ringed! Here’s a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. 🇨🇦🪶

Wow! Up close with a drake Ring-necked Duck today in Norfolk, Ontario! #birdringing @emmabuck.bsky.social

An arrival of Golden-crowned Kinglets at Long Point’s Old Cut today! 🇨🇦🪶

Red-winged Blackbird at Long Point Causeway yesterday. Always full of character! 🇨🇦🪶

Over 500 Sandhill Cranes have been utilising the marshes beside Long Point Causeway in recent days 🇨🇦🪶

Brown Pelican plunge-diving (and dispersing a shoal of fish!) along Cozumel’s waterfront in January 🇲🇽🪶

In addition to several endemic bird species, Cozumel is home to a handful of regionally endemic subspecies. Pictured from January are Bananaquit, Western Spindalis, Rufous-browed Peppershrike and Mangrove Warbler. 🇲🇽🪶

Cozumel’s wastewater treatment plant offered great views of Ruddy Crake, Black-necked Stilt and Northern Jacana (check out those carpal spurs in the last pic!) in early January 🇲🇽🪶

The endemic Cozumel Emerald was easy to locate in suitable habitat across the island in early January 🇲🇽🪶

Four vireo species encountered in Mexico over the turn of the year: White-eyed, Yucatán, Cozumel and Mangrove. The Cozumel Vireo proved surprisingly difficult to find - an island endemic that has declined due to predation by non-native boa constrictors. 🇲🇽🪶

Two endemic Mexican wrens from December and January: Yucatán and Cozumel 🇲🇽🪶

Yellow-crowned Night Heron at Río Lagartos in late December 🇲🇽🪶

Excellent views of Common Pauraque on Cozumel and in Calakmul over the festive period 🇲🇽🪶

Within Canada, the Band-tailed Pigeon is confined to southwestern British Columbia. This forest specialist is North America’s largest pigeon and the closest living relative of the Passenger Pigeon. 🕊️📸 from Vancouver Island this week. 🇨🇦🪶

Bald Eagle keeping a watchful eye over Vancouver last week #CanadianBirding

British Columbia’s first-ever Taiga Bean Geese (middendorffii) gave fabalis views in Port Renfrew yesterday. Hot on the heels of Canada’s first Taiga Flycatcher, they continue this winter’s run of Taiga vagrants in the province. #CanadianBirding

Wilson’s Plover on Cozumel’s coast in early January 🇲🇽🪶

Magnificent Frigatebird over Cozumel in early January 🇲🇽🪶

Ocellated Turkeys offered excellent views at both Calakmul and Cobá in late December. Endemic to the Yucatán Peninsula, they are one of only two extant turkey species in the world. 🇲🇽🪶

Crested Guans aren’t normally seen in areas near humans due to hunting pressure. However, they can be approachable in protected areas, as was the case in Cobá on 27 December. 🇲🇽🪶

The Great Curassow is a secretive member of the Cracidae family, rarely encountered away from protected or very remote areas. This male gave a fleeting view in Zona Arqueológica de Calakmul on 30 December. 🇲🇽🪶

The Mayan Antthrush is an elusive ground-dwelling inhabitant of humid lowland forest, which can prove very difficult to see. I was delighted with this encounter at Camino Vigia Chico on 02 January! 🇲🇽🪶

A Pink-footed Goose (VLF) I saw in east Norfolk in Sep 2021 with Jack Morris had been ringed in NW Iceland in Jul 2017. It’s since been seen elsewhere in Norfolk, Lancashire and Caithness. Jack was also responsible for the Caithness sightings: in 2024 and again this week! 🇮🇸🧪🌍 #UKbirding #birdringing

A Black-headed Gull (2F06) I ringed in Southend-on-Sea in February 2023 was in a Dutch colony at Zoetermeer by the following month. It’s now back in the same colony for its fourth consecutive season, having been seen there this week! 🇳🇱🧪🌍 #EssexBirding #BirdRinging

Woodpigeon ringed via a homemade walk-in trap on Monday. The transition from grey to white in the upperwing coverts is difficult to appreciate in the field. #EssexBirding #BirdRinging

This pair of colour-ringed Brent Geese (LZGH & LZGT), pictured off Leigh-on-Sea on 10 February, were ringed on Terschelling 🇳🇱 in May 2018. Since then, they’ve been regularly seen at Leigh-on-Sea in winter and at various locations on the Dutch coast in spring. 🧪🌍 #EssexBirding #BirdRinging

It’s turnover time for Black-headed Gulls on Southend Seafront as they head to breeding grounds. Today I saw one that spent the winter in St. James’s Park, and last week one that hatched in the Lea Valley. This individual, pictured last month, was ringed in Amsterdam. #EssexBirding

This evening’s 25 km cycle to Hullbridge resulted in five Mute Swans receiving colour rings and a decent number of resightings of those ringed in previous years. #EssexBirding #LowCarbonBirding