The night also highlighted how much teamwork goes into a successful banding operation. Of the 23 people involved, four were first-time participants, including Friends of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge’s Conservation Stewardship Technician, Ian Snyder.
Each year, we rely on volunteers to help with surveys. We accept volunteers of any skill level, pairing newer volunteers/bird identifiers with more experienced folks.
During late August we completed 15 hours of transects and reconnaissance looking for other locations with flowering loosestrife. We also floated the Blitzen River upstream for 15 miles looking for other occurrences. None were found. On 8/28/25 the County came out and sprayed the known plants from an airboat.
Written by 2025 FOMR Biological Technician Lisa Leen/Photo of redside shiners by NPS/Rawhouser Fish Traps All four of the fish traps (Sodhouse, Busse, Grain Camp, and Page Springs) along the
Calls of the following species were recorded and identified by specialized software: pallid bat, big brown bat, silver-haired bat, Mexican free-tailed bat, little brown bat, western small-footed bat, hoary bat, California bat, long-legged bat, Yuma bat, canyon bat and long-eared bat.
