EWMRC2024

13 May 2024.Things are quieting down, with almost all birds remaining stationary on what we assume are their breeding grounds. A couple birds made relatively small movements in the last […]

​6 May 2024.All but two of our new 2024 deployments in West Virginia have checked in, with all but one bird remaining stationary at their tagging sites (Canaan Valley NWR, […]

3 May 2024. All of our Louisiana tagged birds are stationary, BUT… We’ve received check-ins from two of our spring 2023 New York birds, NY-2023-53 and NY-2023-57, both adult males. […]

29 April 2024.No additional movements since the 26th. At present, birds we tagged this winter in Louisiana are currently spread across the woodcock breeding range, from Manitoba to the St. […]

26 April 2024. Most of our birds have been stationary the last few days, with the following exceptions: – LA-2024-38, a young female, moved northeast from near Montréal to the north coast of […]

22 April 2024.TL;DR: young birds tagged in Louisiana this winter keep moving north, adults are stationary; 3 birds tagged in West Virginia in spring 2023 checked in, two are demonstrating […]

15 April 2024.Five of our young birds (three females and two males) made north-ish moves in the last week or so, with most movement occurring within or to Michigan. Birds […]

08 April 2024.Birds continue to move north and northeast! LA-2024-44, 45, 49 and 54 recently made movements directly north, ending in Manitoba, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Minnesota, and the […]

​01 April 2024. One of our birds that last checked in from Louisiana on February 19, adult female LA-2024-37, has miraculously reappeared in southeast Minnesota! She’s been there since March 11. […]

29 March 2024.A couple of our birds recently exhibited ‘reverse migration’, moving south instead of north, no doubt due to scarcity of food after last week’s storms. See LA-2024-58 in […]