EWMRC2024

Happy Halloween to you (and hopefully to all of our tagged birds)! We’ve had a few check-ins from our 2024 Nova Scotia females, all of whom are staying put in […]

14 October 2024. Greetings from Nova Scotia! Over the past couple of weeks, Rachel (with the assistance of field technician Taylor and fellow graduate student Kylie) has been deploying GPS […]

09 September 2024.The GPS units on our birds are still in their dormant phase, but at the University of Maine, we are far from dormant! Several current and recently graduated […]

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 […]