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    Meet Five New Space Robins

    The newest space robins At 6:40 am five American robins flew into our nets. What a great start to the day!   Other bird species we’ve seen so far While we’re on the lookout for American robins, we see lots of other bird species. Brian’s been taking some pretty spectacular photos of them, so we […]

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    Migration Mystery: Listen to the singing!

    This morning we woke up to a lot more bird songs in the forest compared to what we’d been hearing in the days before. We were pretty excited. We waited and watched for any of them to fly into our nets.   In this video, you can’t really see that there are lots of birds […]

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    Welcome to Alberta, Canada!

    Our adventure began in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on Wednesday, April 13th. After a solid day of driving up and over the Rocky Mountains, we arrived in Alberta on Thursday. Here are some photos from the drive. You can see our team mascot in the photos – a stuffed animal version of an American robin. […]

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    A Migration Mystery

    This field blog is written for a very special group of people – elementary school children who are curious and eager to learn about Earth and the animals we humans share it with! While I’m getting ready to head to the field, I wanted to give kids like you some background information that should help […]

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