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Net Results: Dearborn CBC, 2010
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Blog of the Rouge River Bird Observatory at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Monday, January 4, 2010. Dearborn CBC, 2010. RRBO has been coordinating the Dearborn portion of the Detroit River Christmas Bird Count. CBC) since 1995. The count is held each year on New Year's Day. After last year's exciting count. Being planted in hay and harvested this year, leaving them in barren stubble with no or few birds. Whatever waste grain may have been left behind had long been picked over, leaving nothing for b...
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Net Results: Dearborn portion of Detroit River CBC, 2013
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Blog of the Rouge River Bird Observatory at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Friday, January 11, 2013. Dearborn portion of Detroit River CBC, 2013. Frozen Fairlane Lake on the University of. The Detroit River Michigan-Ontario Christmas Bird Count was held, as it is each year, on January 1. This was the 36th year for the count, which is centered at I-94 and Warren Ave. And the 19th year that RRBO has coordinated the field work in the city of Dearborn. Later, Greg Norwood, covering the north end of cam...
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Net Results: November 2014
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Blog of the Rouge River Bird Observatory at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Tuesday, November 18, 2014. Fall 2014 fruit and seed work. I mentioned in a previous post. That our analyses of seeds found in the fecal samples of birds requires context: some sort of compilation and rank abundance of all the ripe fruit available to birds to eat when they are present in the area. In that post, I described our fruit counting methods. Glossy Buckthorn fruit does not ripen simultaneously, so red,. This closely...
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Net Results: March 2015
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Blog of the Rouge River Bird Observatory at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Thursday, March 5, 2015. Winter Bird Population Survey 2014-2015. The 23rd year of RRBO's Winter Bird Population Survey. On our Christmas Bird Count day. Heavy construction activity along Fair Lane Drive also impacted bird activity along eastern edge of survey area. This construction will be continuing through summer, and likely also have an effect on spring surveys. The highlight was probably the Pine Siskins that were pres...
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Net Results: Winter Bird Population Survey 2014-2015
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Blog of the Rouge River Bird Observatory at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Thursday, March 5, 2015. Winter Bird Population Survey 2014-2015. The 23rd year of RRBO's Winter Bird Population Survey. On our Christmas Bird Count day. Heavy construction activity along Fair Lane Drive also impacted bird activity along eastern edge of survey area. This construction will be continuing through summer, and likely also have an effect on spring surveys. The highlight was probably the Pine Siskins that were pres...
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Net Results: Grasshopper Sparrows nesting in Dearborn
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Blog of the Rouge River Bird Observatory at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Wednesday, July 1, 2015. Grasshopper Sparrows nesting in Dearborn. Update: As of late July, the sparrows are still present. The vegetation is high enough that it is not possible to tell if they are feeding young without going out into the field, so we are unlikely to confirm this. However, their presence on territory this long indicates they have likely nested. Here's a link. Ssp, and fleabanes,. We will be keeping an eye on...
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Net Results: Peregrine Falcons nesting in Dearborn
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Blog of the Rouge River Bird Observatory at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Wednesday, July 8, 2015. Peregrine Falcons nesting in Dearborn. Update: The jury is still out on the band number and identity. Barb Baldinger writes: " We clearly saw 6/M, but want a better look. It could be 66/M and we only saw the second 6, the space and first 6 in the way the numbers are repeated. If that is the case, he is one of ours, Iggy from UD Mercy, Detroit, hatched in 2011."]. On the north side of Hubbard east of ...
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Jackson Audubon Society - Links
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The Audubon Society of Jackson County, Michigan. Http:/ www.audubon.org/. Michigan Audubon Society (MAS). Http:/ www.michiganaudubon.org/. Http:/ www.washtenawaudubon.org/. Http:/ www.capitalareaaudubon.org/. Last 30 days of posted sightings. Http:/ www.mibirdatlas.org/. A Birder's Guide to Michigan (ABA). THE guide to birding in Michigan. Available from the MAS bookstore, Discovery Center in Waterloo Recreation Area, and online at Amazon. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Whitefish Point Bird Observatory.
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Net Results: October 2014
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Blog of the Rouge River Bird Observatory at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Thursday, October 9, 2014. Field work, fall 2014. We have been dividing our time here at RRBO censusing and measuring fruit, and banding birds in order to collect the seeds of fruit eaten by the birds. I know you want me to show you bird stuff first! This bird made. I took a short recording - click here to listen. It's a m4a file, but I can play it with Windows Media Player). We catch very few Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers - thi...
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Net Results: Dearborn portion of Detroit River CBC, 2014
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Blog of the Rouge River Bird Observatory at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Friday, January 10, 2014. Dearborn portion of Detroit River CBC, 2014. The Detroit River Michigan-Ontario Christmas Bird Count was held, as it is each year, on January 1. This was the 36th year for the count, which is centered at I-94 and Warren Ave. And the 20th year that RRBO has coordinated the field work in the city of Dearborn. Including 3500 House Sparrows. This year, all we had there was a single Northern Cardinal.
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