BSBO AND PROJECT SNOWSTORM

Buckeye

Wolverine

​Buckeye was a third-year female when she was captured at Detroit Metropolitan Airport by USDA WIldlife Services and relocated to northwestern Ohio. She was tagged by Mark Shieldcastle from Black Swamp Bird Observatory, and released Feb. 15, 2015, in farmland north of Oak Harbor, OH. Buckeye is part of Project SNOWstorm’s and Wildlife Services’s efforts to learn more about the most effective methods and distances to safely relocate owls from airports. She spent the summer of 2015 on the Boothia Peninsula of northern Nunavut, and the winter of 2015-16 around western Lake Erie. Her transmitter was generously sponsored by Black Swamp Bird Observatory and the Kirtland Bird Club. 

​Wolverine is a male originally banded as a Hatch-Year at Detroit/Wayne Airport (DTW) in Detroit, Michigan in 2017. He returned to DTW where he was captured by Airport Biologist, Selena Creed, and transported for tagging to Black Swamp Bird Observatory(BSBO) on January 3, 2020. BSBO Research Director Mark Shieldcastle was in charge of the tagging and he was assisted by BSBO Staff Ornithologist Ryan Jacob, and DTW Biologist Selena Creed.