Name: Songbird Banding at the Beaverhill Bird Observatory
Start: 2025-08-23
End: 2025-09-14
Location: Beaverhill Bird Observatory

Events Description

This annual fall migration of songbirds occurs from July until early October, with September being the peak in songbird abundance. Birds captured include warblers, nuthatches, woodpeckers, thrushes, blackbirds, orioles, sparrows and more! Join our biologists for a morning in the woods to learn about the research being conducted on our feathery friends and see live birds up close and personal!

Nets open 30 mins before sunrise and run for 6 hours, weather permitting. Weather that would prevent us from opening or force us to shut down and CANCEL banding include: rain/snow, wind >20km/hr, and temperatures below freezing. Check the hourly weather forecast before you leave by looking at the weather forecast for Tofield, Alberta. Our on-site temperatures are usually 1-2 degrees colder than Tofield. If the overnight temperature is freezing, we will open the nets once the on-site temperature is 0C and warmer.

You may arrive at any point during the 6 hours of banding, however, the earlier you arrive, the greater your chances are of seeing birds being banded as songbirds are most active in the first couple hours after sunrise. The event start time lines up with the sunrise time each day.

HOW MUCH

Tickets:

General Admission: $25.00

Youth (6-17) $10.00
Child (5 and under) FREE
Seniors (65+) $15.00

How to get tickets?

Buy Online

WHEN & WHERE

Date & Time:

Saturdays & Sundays, August 23, 24, 30, 31 September 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21, 2025 | Morning Hours

Venue:

Beaverhill Bird Observatory

Township Road 510

Tofield, AB T0B 4J0

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