18 sets of playback treatments complete! Jaclyn Aubin is leading an experimental study of territorial signalling in migratory Savannah Sparrows Bowdoin Kent Island. 📢🎶🐦
With assistance from amazing undergrad Sarah Foreman and our collaborative team. Way to go Jaclyn and Sarah!
So happy to be back Bowdoin Kent Island! Our field season is off to a fantastic start with lots of Savannah Sparrows on territory and many cold but beautiful sunrises! Our song meters are recording, the Savannah Sparrows are singing, and soon the nesting will begin! #fieldwork #birds
Savannah Sparrow adults often make this call when they are at their nest together. Why?! In the first phase of experiments at Bowdoin Kent Island, I am playing this call to nestlings to see if it elicits gaping. Next phase: what does it elicit in the adults? Dan Mennill UWindsor Integrative Biology
My new paper is out in Bioacoustics: 'Field tests of small autonomous recording units: an evaluation of in-person versus automated point counts and a comparison of recording quality.'
doi.org/10.1080/095246…
Thanks NSERC / CRSNG & Bowdoin Kent Island.
#bioacoustics #ARUs #ornithology
Just in case you missed it, check out:
Oasis of Opportunity on the Bowdoin website
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#bsskentisland #bowdoin college #bowdoin
Having a blast working with Helena Souffrant at Bowdoin Kent Island! We combine our Savannah Sparrow and Tree Swallow research to ask: do sparrows build nests closer to swallow boxes? Sparrows may benefit from proximity to Tree Swallows, who are skilled predator detectors. Let's see!
(2/6) We explored the territories of Savannah Sparrows. My collaborators have mapped sparrows’ male territories on @BSSKentIsland for more than a decade. With GIS, I calculated the area of 485 territories from 2011-2022 and found high territory size variation. #AnimBehav2023
Male Savannah Sparrows are arriving from migration in the fog of the Bay of Fundy. Our research team Bowdoin Kent Island is banding the males, mapping their territories, and recording their songs.
“Fogseeker” Gift Secures Future of Kent Island Weather Station
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1 stuffed van + 1900 km of highway + 1 ferry + 1 lobster boat = our research team has arrived Bowdoin Kent Island.
We're ready for Savannah Sparrows to arrive from migration in the Bay of Fundy. The 2024 field season begins!
(6/6) I thank my supervisor @Dmennill and collaborators Sarah Dobney,Dr. Ryan Norris Stéphanie Doucet and Amy Newman (she/her) of University of Windsor and @UGuelph. I thank NSERC / CRSNG and University of Windsor for financial support and @BSSKentIsland for logistical support. Thank you Animal Behavior Society!
#AnimBehav2023
I am grateful for my wonderful advisor Dan Mennill and my awesome co-authors and collaborators Bowdoin Kent Island. I am especially thankful for the Savannah Sparrows who cooperatively sang and showed us their nests!
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As an artist and a sculptor, Audrey Shakespear likes to combine the high tech with the traditional. buff.ly/3ZLoAqa #bsskentisland #bowdoin college #bowdoin
Wish I could be there #AOS_SCO23 ! Just have some bird tracking to do on Bowdoin Kent Island. Sounds like everyone is having a blast!!
Three cheers for Sarah Dobney for completing our ninth annual acoustic survey of Kent Island! 🙌🙌🙌
This photo shows our Song Meter on the north tip of Bowdoin Kent Island, with Hay Island in the background (where Sarah is recording now), and Grand Manan on the horizon.
