Following over 400 monitoring visits, we have uploaded the final summary results to the website. We can still update this with any further monitoring results – so please, send them in if you have them! Mistakes can be made with data entry, so please check your data to make sure it is properly represented.
Following the same pattern used in the past few years, we have produced two separate documents. The first of these is a summary of the National Roost Monitoring Program results from May and June. The summary statistics demonstrate that we reached more communities, more sites, and recruited more volunteers than ever before in 2018. Well done everyone!
https://www.mbchimneyswift.com/Documents/2014_18_database_2018.pdf
It would be impossible to watch over 150 chimneys during the NRMP period, even with the dedicated volunteers we have. Likewise though we were able to watch more chimneys than ever this summer, in more communities, with even more volunteers, a superb achievement. The roost and nesting database covers every chimney that was watched during the summer of 2018. We have added lines for towns where Chimney Swifts were seen, but no occupied site was identified, including Baldur, Birtle, Emerson and Pilot Mound. We added a site for Neepawa where we are pretty sure a breeding pair was resident, but we need confirmation. This is to say, we still need more sleuthing in 2019, to work out where these birds are breeding. Overall, there were 100 volunteers sending in data this year – another record!
https://www.mbchimneyswift.com/Documents/NRMP20132018.pdf
The final piece of the jigsaw for 2018 has already been publicised on our website, but for anyone who has not see the St Adolphe nesting summary, here it is again.
https://www.mbchimneyswift.com/Documents/stadolphe_2018.pdf
Finally, as we come close to the end of the year, a time when people begin to consider whether to donate to charities, we are asking for the first time, that people consider donating to MCSI. After over 10 years, we are currently in a funding squeeze, reaching the end of our current Environment and Climate Change grant in March 2019. We will continue to explore new avenues for grants, but in the meantime, we have added an option to the website (on the left sidebar or at the bottom of this page) to make a donation to MCSI.
If you click the donate button, you choose the amount of your donation. You do not need a PayPal account to use the donation feature. Any funds raised will go toward keeping the MCSI monitoring, outreach and restoration continuing in the future.
Tax receipts will be provided by Nature Manitoba, and “Nature Manitoba” will show up as the recipient of your credit card payment.
