Group photo of our team (2024)
Current Team
MBO Director
Barbara Frei
Bander in Chief
Shawna Sevigny
Coordinator and Bander
Cindy Bouchard
MBO Assistant Director
Simon Duval
Owl Bander
Lauriane Nault
Master Permit Holder
Marcel Gahbauer
Our students
Master Student
Anne-Marie Cousineau
She is studying how the Northern Cardinal is moving across those green spaces in Montreal during the winter season.
Honor Student
Nathanya Goudreau
Using historical banding data from the McGill Bird Observatory and the Tadoussac Bird Observatory, she will be investigating wing length and body mass trends of short- and long-distance migrant passerines
Master Student
Vanessa Poirier
Her project aim to understand if molting Tennessee warblers and Swainson’s thrushes at the MBO maintaining the same level of health as their non-molting peers.
Our Volunteers
Without them, we couldn’t do what we do. They are loyal, passionate and rigorous. Our volunteers are everywhere, in the nets every morning at dawn and sometimes during the night during migration, cleaning the site at the start of the season, maintaining the vegetation and trails, filling our feeders in winter, behind our kiosk at events, leading a group on tours and behind a sewing machine to make birds bags.
We are so grateful to have such an amazing team of volunteers.
Group photo of our volunteers (2023)
Past contributors
Master Student
Anne-Marie Cousineau
Honor Student
Nathanya Goudreau
Master Student
Vanessa Poirier
Master Student
Vanessa Poirier
Master Student
Vanessa Poirier
Master Student
Vanessa Poirier
3 345
Total hours given by our volunteers last year
