Four to eight survey stations comprise aroute, which is visited in the evening two or three times between April and July. Species areidentified by sound or sight. The Marsh Monitoring Program is a cooperative venture of Environment Canada and the Long Point Bird Observatory. Those efforts and associated meeting notes, contacts, and reports are available at their web site . Migration Monitoring A group of Canadian and US ornithologists have joined together to design and implementmonitoring systems for birds during migration.
Counts taken during migration suffer from high variability in counts and captures.
To fill that information gap we have initiated anew program to count birds as they migrate north and south. Checklist report and recommendations. Bird observatories, migration stations, and other intensive monitoring sites. Most recent recommendations for establishing a migration station or other intensive site migration operation. Canada has now implemented a national Migration Monitoring Network .