This message has been approved by the ONTBIRDS coordinator: Journey North is an award-winning internet-based science program that allows students to monitor and study the arrival of spring across North America. In it's 10th year, this program is utilized by about 600,000 students from 3000 classrooms in Canada and the United States. A key component of this program are reports of certain target migratory species and phenomenon. Many members of this list responded to a request for winter robin sightings. On the following page, you can see exactly how these reports were mapped:
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/spring2003/species/robin/Update021803.html THANK YOU! FOR THOSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE SHARING THEIR IMPORTANT SPRING SIGHTINGS AND OBSERVATIONS THAT DO NOT QUALIFY FOR POSTING TO ONTBIRDS, Journey North would be pleased to accept the following sightings: Frog (first heard) Hummingbird (first sighted) Loon (first sighted) Monarch Butterfly (first sighted, first egg, first larva) Oriole (first sighted, first nest-building) Red-winged Blackbird (first sighted) Barn Swallow (first sighted) Other signs of spring. There are also a number of non-bird species and other phenomenon to report, such as Ice Out, Leaf Out, First Earthworm Seen, etc. Please register at the Journey North site and report directly to Journey North (www.learner.org/jnorth) Thank you Don Davis Toronto, ON P.S. Latest news: Migrating monarch butterflies are flowing into Texas. One of the 21 whooping crane chicks that make up the experimental "Eastern" flock has gone missing, and is presumed dead. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
