Dear shorebird enthusiasts,

We've posted summaries for each of our three remote field camps for 31 July to 12 August. As additional reports are received we will be posting to our website.

Highlights from the this period include influxes of adult White-rumped Sandpipers during the period and first juvenile Red Knot. Check out the summaries for more details.
https://www.jamesbayshorebirdproject.com/seasonsummaries/
Stay tuned!
Christian Friis
Canadian Wildlife Service
Toronto, Canada

Dear shorebird enthusiasts,

We've posted summaries for each of our three remote field camps for 13-27 August. Our final report will be posted later this month after our field personnel return late next week.

Highlights from the this period include a project record high count for White-rumped Sandpipers and an average of 1/3 of Red Knot counts are juvenile. Check out the summaries for more details.
https://www.jamesbayshorebirdproject.com/seasonsummaries/

Stay tuned!
Christian Friis
Canadian Wildlife Service
Toronto, Canada

Dear shorebird enthusiasts,

We've posted summaries for each of our three remote field camps for 28 August to 10 September. This is our final field camp report for the 2018 season. We will post the aerial survey summary in the coming weeks.

Highlights from this period include primarily juvenile Red Knot counts, influxes of Dunlin and much more. Check out the summaries for more details.
https://www.jamesbayshorebirdproject.com/seasonsummaries/

A huge thanks to our crew leaders Gray Carlin, Amie MacDonald, and Doug McRae! These folks should be commended for their time and efforts leading a variety of personnel over the course of the season. Further big thanks to the numerous volunteers who dedicated their time to the project this season! All told over 40 personnel from four countries were involved in 2018.

Thank you for your interest,
Christian Friis
Canadian Wildlife Service
Toronto, Canada

Dear shorebird enthusiasts,

We've posted the summary for this past season’s aerial survey of the James Bay coast from the Quebec border north to Ekwan Point.

Over 240,000 individual shorebirds were recorded during the survey, doubling the totals from 2016 (about 110,000) and 2017 (about 105,600). Reasons for the significantly higher number of birds in 2018 are currently unclear but are likely connected to the widely reported very poor breeding conditions in the Arctic in 2018.

Check out the summary for more details.
https://www.jamesbayshorebirdproject.com/seasonsummaries/

Thank you for your interest,
Christian Friis
Canadian Wildlife Service
Toronto, Canada