Intermountain Bird Observatory

Rare Bird Alert! ⚠️ 5/31/26

Our team has been doing just a few banding days this spring at Camas National Wildlife Refuge. We are working to collect data at locations throughout the refuge with varying amounts of water, to hopefully help better understand how water management and restoration efforts affect this migration stopover site.

Intermountain Bird Observatory songbird banders just released a female Bay-breasted Warbler near the observation tower at Camas NWR in Jefferson County! Approximate location: 43.92833, -112.27006 - she was released from here but we just saw her fly off to the southeast and have not relocated her, although she did land in the sagebrush not too far from the path. She was originally caught around here: 43.92519, -112.27469, so she may return to that area.

I believe this is the 3rd state record if all records are on eBird.

She was banded and released as part of research efforts to understand water usage and its impact on migrating songbirds, with a federal permit from the USGS Bird Banding Lab.

If anyone comes to look for this bird before we wrap up banding today around 11am, please be mindful of our banding operation and do not hang out right by any of our nets. But you're more than welcome to come check out the banding station!

Free plant cages available!
At the Diane Moore Nature Center, we are shifting our plant protection techniques and using larger exclosures instead of small cages. That means we have a lot of free plastic mesh cages available!

If you could use these and would like to pick them up, they are stacked outside our shipping container at the Diane Moore Nature Center location. Take as many as you like.

**Please note, if our interns are on site working that day there may be pots, stakes or other supplies sitting out. ONLY the light yellowish mesh cages are available to take