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Morning bird walk planned for Thursday. BIRD WALK: BIRDWATCHING ON THE LAKE ERIE SHORELINE WITH HOLLY MERKER. 10:30 a.m., Thursday, Train Station Patio, free:
Due to the large number of birds that stop at the marsh during migration, Magee Marsh is a popular site for birdwatching, particularly on its boardwalk trail. The Black Swamp Bird Observatory hosts the Biggest Week in American Birding festival at the marsh in early May; the festival typically draws 60,000 to 80,000 visitors to the marsh each year.
The wide publication in 1934 of the first modern field guide by Roger Tory Peterson truly revolutionized birding. However, in that era, most birders did not travel widely. The earliest known continent-wide Big Year record was compiled by Guy Emerson, a traveling businessman, who timed his business trips to coincide with the best birding seasons for different areas in North Americ
OAK HARBOR - Friends of Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge will offer its West Sister Island Sunset Birding Cruise fundraising event 6:30-9 p.m. May 4.
Sargent has been monitoring birds since 2007 with the Audobon Society and now with the Erie Bird Observatory. The work is part of a long-term research effort that dates back to 1960.
Lake Erie is home to one of the world's largest freshwater commercial fisheries. Lake Erie's fish populations are the most abundant of the Great Lakes, partially because of the lake's relatively mild temperatures and plentiful supply of plankton, which is the basic building block of the food chain. [41]
Maumee Bay on Lake Erie is located in the U.S. state of Ohio, just east of the city of Toledo. The bay and the surrounding wetlands form most of the Maumee River basin, and in 1975 part of the area was incorporated into Maumee Bay State Park .
The Pacific Flyway is in green. The Pacific Flyway is a major north-south flyway for migratory birds in the Americas, extending from Alaska to Patagonia. [1] Every year, migratory birds travel some or all of this distance both in spring and in fall, following food sources, heading to breeding grounds, or travelling to overwintering sites. [2]