The Informant

I was out searching for snowy owls in the agricultural fields of Southern Ontario when I met a lone bird bander working with a flock of snow buntings. He was kind enough to let me document his work (from a social distance) and I was able to capture this image of a snow bunting being released after being banded. Bird banding involves placing a small metal band with a unique numerical code on a bird’s leg so that it’s movements can be reconstructed with data collected by multiple researchers. This banded snow bunting (along with many others) will hopefully help us better understand the species’ rather confusing migration routes from Greenland to Southern Ontario.