Description
When the Ontario government decided in the late 1980’s that it needed to monitor the wildlife living in its vast Northern Ontario crown lands, it was Ministry of Natural Resources scientist Dr. David Hussell who thought that a bird migration monitoring station in the Thunder Bay area would fill a big gap between stations at Delta, Manitoba and Whitefish Point, Michigan (near Sault Ste. Marie). He surmised that migratory birds from the forests of Northwestern Ontario would pass by the western half of Lake Superior on their way south in the fall and north in the spring.
